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Which SSL Certificate is Right for your Business?
Which SSL Certificate is Right for your Business?
HTTPS has become necessary to ensure a website’s success. If you are looking to make the switch yourself, then you should consider what…
James Pattison
Feb 13
Tips for Switching to HTTPS
Tips for Switching to HTTPS
HTTPS is quickly becoming a minimum requirement for having a successful business online. Google Chrome and other browsers have begun…
James Pattison
Feb 6
Guide to Safe Online Shopping for Christmas
Guide to Safe Online Shopping for Christmas
As the holiday season fast approaches you will be on a race to do all your shopping in time. Online shopping makes the hassle of getting…
James Pattison
Nov 21, 2018
Introduction to Tech Support Scams
Introduction to Tech Support Scams
Among the more common scams used by cyber criminals is the fake technical support service. Phone calls from Microsoft technicians and…
Andy Gambles
Oct 8, 2018
Chrome to break .dev development with forced HTTPS
Chrome to break .dev development with forced HTTPS
If you use .dev when you development your web applications you may have problems with Chrome.
Andy Gambles
Sep 17, 2017
FTP URLs in Chrome to be marked Non Secure
FTP URLs in Chrome to be marked Non Secure
From Chrome 63 (December 2017) Chrome will mark FTP URLs in browser as Not Secure.
Andy Gambles
Sep 14, 2017
Auto-fill Phishing with Chrome
Auto-fill Phishing with Chrome
As demonstrated by anttiviljami on Github browser-autofill-phishing allows for Chrome to leak additional information that the user may not…
Andy Gambles
Jan 5, 2017
Content Strategy for 2017
Content Strategy for 2017
As we welcome in 2017 I have been taking a look at the content published by Servertastic.
Andy Gambles
Jan 5, 2017
Why is Google so bad at segmenting data?
Why is Google so bad at segmenting data?
Like many online businesses we make use of Adwords to increase our reach.
Andy Gambles
Dec 20, 2016
Firefox testing verbose password field warning on non-secure (HTTP) pages
Firefox testing verbose password field warning on non-secure (HTTP) pages
Following in the footsteps of Chrome it seems FireFox is testing a UI change to highlight further the dangers of password fields on…
Andy Gambles
Nov 24, 2016
WOT Browser Extension Removed from Browsers for Privacy Breaches
WOT Browser Extension Removed from Browsers for Privacy Breaches
The Web Of Trust (WOT) browser extension has been removed from the FireFox and Chrome browsers due to concerns over user privacy. The WOT…
Andy Gambles
Nov 4, 2016
Chrome testing HTTPS redirect when certificate hostname is invalid
Chrome testing HTTPS redirect when certificate hostname is invalid
A recent thread on twitter recently highlighted a field test flag in the chromium project that attempts to handle HTTPS errors on base…
Andy Gambles
Oct 27, 2016
Weebly hacked. Usernames and bcrypt passwords stolen. EV Certificate helps protect users.
Weebly hacked. Usernames and bcrypt passwords stolen. EV Certificate helps protect users.
43,430,316 Weebly users will be opening their emails today with a notice that their account details may have been compromised. The…
Andy Gambles
Oct 21, 2016
Chrome provides verbose warning for password fields on non-secure websites
Chrome provides verbose warning for password fields on non-secure websites
The latest update to Chrome Canary Version (my version 56.0.2896.0 canary (64-bit)) now displays a verbose message to users where a…
Andy Gambles
Oct 20, 2016
Google to remove “Demote Sitelinks” option
Google to remove “Demote Sitelinks” option
When you perform a search in Google you often see a site listed with additional links. Here is an example of how Servertastic currently…
Andy Gambles
Oct 17, 2016
Power of Facebook Ad Targeting
Power of Facebook Ad Targeting
Infograph by WordStream
Andy Gambles
Oct 16, 2016
Google to split index into desktop & mobile. Might be time to invest further in adwords.
Google to split index into desktop & mobile. Might be time to invest further in adwords.
Google webmaster trends analyst, Gary Illyes, has stated at a digital marketing conference in Pubcon, Las Vegas, that search will become…
Andy Gambles
Oct 14, 2016
TalkTalk hit with record £400,000 fine for failing to prevent SQL Injection attack
TalkTalk hit with record £400,000 fine for failing to prevent SQL Injection attack
UK broadband and telecoms provider TalkTalk have been hit with a record fine by the Information Commissioner for failing to adequately…
Andy Gambles
Oct 5, 2016
Mozilla plan to distrust StartCom/WoSign Certificates
Mozilla plan to distrust StartCom/WoSign Certificates
Mozilla have released the details of their investigation in to WoSign and StartCom (better known as StartSSL). In short they plan to…
Andy Gambles
Sep 26, 2016
Complaining customers are your best customers
Complaining customers are your best customers
You just finish typing a response to a customer who has had the audacity to complain about being unable to find the correct button on your…
Andy Gambles
Sep 22, 2016
Never serve a HTTPS enabled domain over HTTP
Never serve a HTTPS enabled domain over HTTP
If your site remains accessible via HTTP then it becomes trivial for an attacker to downgrade requests to your website to plain HTTP and…
Andy Gambles
Sep 9, 2016
Google confirm Chrome to highlight Not Secure websites from January 2017
Google confirm Chrome to highlight Not Secure websites from January 2017
Following on from my post the other day about how the current beta version of Chrome has the ability to mark websites as Not Secure. Google…
Andy Gambles
Sep 8, 2016
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