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SSL updates, perfect scores, and compliance with specifications. | My website SSL certificate was up for renewal. That relatively simple task of renewing the certificate ended up into a sort of Apache web server ...
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When Chrome 68 arrives, expected around July 2018, websites that don’t use HTTPS will be branded “Not secure”. This label will appear in the address bar, in place of where you’d see the padlock and ...
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I’ve run my personal blog website for over ten years. Although it may be just a personal website, not a busy e-commerce platform or high-security outfit, I’ve always made sure it’s run professionally, and ...
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I am cautious about my secure browsing. One thing I do is that from time to time, I’ll click on the Secure button in the Chrome location bar to check on the SSL certificates of the HTTPS websites I visit. I was really ...
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We have heard about it, that the popular SHA1 hashing function used in a lot of security software, is weak and should be deprecated and officially obsoleted. Certificate authorities had stopped issuing certificates with SHA1 ...
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One of my SSL certificates expired recently. It wasn’t something really important. It’s only for my personal pfSense router, after all, and the only person impacted is myself, and then only when I made the rare access ...
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I’ve been puzzling over this one for a while. I think, ever since I upgraded to Nougat, I have had some trouble accessing some of my websites. While my Nexus 6P’s browser could access my blog, the WordPress.com app ...
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I’ve been using free SSL server certificates from StartSSL.com for many years. These are legit, free, certificates that last for a full year, not those 1-week trial sort of free certificates. This is, of course, before the ...
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I’ve switched to a new SSL certificate on my blog website. Most of the time, this is just an uninteresting routine maintenance. Certificates expire, and they need to get renewed. It’s not the usual thing this time ...
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I’ve been sitting on this information for some time, waiting to get more research done before I publish a post. But since word has come out about how Lenovo preloads what amounts to very bad spyware on their PCs, I thought ...