Why Does Website Hosting Matter? Your web host is a very influential, but mostly hidden, first impression of your website to your visitors. When it comes to web hosting, there are countless places that will give the bare minimum in service and support for the bare minimum price. However, a web host is more important […]
Heartbleed? OpenSSL? Is My Website at Risk?
I suspect that you may have seen a lot of news about Heartbleed, a significant bug impacting the security of many SSL transactions over the web. What is SSL? SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer and it is this protocol that protects the sending and receiving of information between your web browser and almost all […]
How Does Email Encryption Work?
The technology that drives all of this is known as Public Key Infrastructure, or PKI. Anyone can use the Public Key, but only the holder of the Private Key can use this Private Key — it should never be shared. If someone wants to send me a private/encrypted email message, they simply use my Public Key to encrypt the message before sending. Since only I have the Private Key, only I can decrypt the message to see the original contents.
Passwords: the Strong, the Weak, and the Repeated
If you’re one of the unfortunate souls who has had an online account hacked, you know that the fallout from such an event can range from the merely uncomfortable to all-out disastrous. Hackers can gain entry into online accounts in any number of ways, but by far the most common is the password hack. Password […]
The Cloud – Leveling the Playing Field for Small Business
Ask almost anyone to define “cloud” and you might get a variety of responses, many of them suggesting the condensation of water vapor in the air. But for business, “the cloud” is a way of handling computing functions more economically and efficiently. Cloud computing, in a nutshell, outsources computation, software applications, data access, data management, […]
The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing: Domain Name Registry Scams
For as many ways as there are to make money in business, there are equally as many ways for someone to try and scam you out of that money. The majority of scams out there involve small amounts of money, easily missed in the short term. Domain Name Registration Scams One of the more insidious scams out […]
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