From Security to Reputation: The Impact of Not Having an SSL Certificate on Your Website
Discover how SSL certificates can help secure your website, build trust with your visitors, and improve your search engine rankings.
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Disabling SSLv3 for POODLE
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How To Protect Yourself From The WannaCry Ransomware Virus
How To Protect Yourself From WannaCry
The ransomware attack is holding computers hostage all over the world.
Here’s what you need to know about it to keep yourself as safe as possible.
WannaCry attack started on Friday of last week, locking people out of their computers by encrypting their files and demanding them to pay up to 300$ in Bitcoin. To make matters worse the price doubles after 3 days. To receive a decryption key or risk losing your important files forever. What’s worse is that the malware also acts as a worm, which means that it has potential to infect computers and servers on the same network!
ShellShock vulnerability: Should you be concerned?
In the very short: Yes, update right now. If you want more details read below.
What is ShellShock vulnerability?
ShellShock is a nickname given to remote exploit vulnerability in bash CVE-2014-6271. It could allow an attacker to gain control over a targeted computer if exploited successfully. All Linux installations running Bash shell are vulnerable to this exploit.
It is important to understand that (more…)