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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…
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    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…
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    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…
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    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…
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    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.
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    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.
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    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…
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    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.
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    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.
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    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…
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    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…
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    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…
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    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…
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    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…
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    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…
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    Andy Gambles
    Oct 17, 2016
    Power of Facebook Ad Targeting

    Power of Facebook Ad Targeting

    Infograph by WordStream
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    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…
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    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…
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    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…
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    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…
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    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…
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    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…
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    Andy Gambles
    Sep 8, 2016
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