by ray | Jul 6, 2018 | Security, NGINX
Introduction Your web site address starts with http:// The site contains interactive elements, such as payment buttons, or text forms etc. For the visitor, the site is flagged by the browser as ‘insecure’. You need to convert the site to https:// This requires that...
by ray | Oct 30, 2017 | G Suite, Security
I know it’s convenient to have your Chrome browser save all of your passwords so that you don’t have to type them in each time. However, this is a big security risk. If I were you, I would go to https://passwords.google.com and turn off “Smart Lock...
by ray | Mar 14, 2017 | Security
A week ago Friday, someone took down numerous popular websites in a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against the domain name provider Dyn. DDoS attacks are neither new nor sophisticated. The attacker sends a massive amount of traffic, causing the...
by ray | Mar 14, 2017 | Security
Just months after disclosing a breach that compromised the passwords for a half billion of its users, Yahoo now says a separate incident has jeopardized data from at least a billion more user accounts. The company also warned attackers have figured out a way to log...
by ray | Oct 26, 2016 | G Suite, Security
If you’ve configured two-step verification for your Gmail account, rather than checking your mobile for codes you can plug in a verified USB stick instead. You can carry it wherever you go, and of course, it doesn’t lose battery or signal. According to Google, it also...
by ray | Sep 19, 2016 | Security
Even if your password is a bit more complicated that “qwerty,” your information is always out there in the big, bad world of the Internet. Just this week, it was revealed that hundreds of millions of account details had been stolen from many popular email services and...
