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WordPress Enables Free HTTPS Connections to Custom Domains
WordPress is a free, open source content management system, typically used for blogs and quick makeshift websites. While it’s nice to have your own content, you want to make sure that its safe and secure, something which the “Lets Encrypt” project hopes to improve upon, a project that WordPress have…
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Malware Could Be Using Legitimate Signature Certificates
When it comes to installing software on your computer, we often have to take it on faith that the software is safe to use. As an extra precaution, the latest step is to allow companies to use “certificates”, digital signatures that show that a trusted company created the software. A…
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SD Association Introduces New Video Speed Class Rating
It has been a while since we got the last official speed rating for SD cards from the SD Association and the current ratings are quite low compared to the speeds we see from other hardware parts these days. Granted, the SDA ratings are minimum speeds and we’ve long had…
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Dell Sorry and Rushes To Fix Security Issue
Yesterday we reported on a security issue that came pre-installed on Dell machines, resulting in a potential security risk to both your details and opening up your system into being tricked about if a website is ‘secure’ or not. It would seem that they have been quick and keen to…
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Dells Security Affects More Than Just Your PC!
Recently Dell has received a lot of attention regarding their security, to be more precise it was due to a digital certificate. These are small pieces of code that are used to encrypt the traffic between your system and any website or online system you use, remember that little padlock in…
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Comodo Fixes Issue Which Resulted In Banned Certificates
Have you ever noticed that padlock symbol in your address bar when you go on a website, such as eBay or your emails? These symbols actually mean something, they mean that the website has been verified by an SSL certificate, these are provided by an external company and are designed…
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Plex to Allow Free SSL Encryption
Plex gave its users an important security upgrade last week. The home media streaming platform announced that all its users are getting free SSL certificates, enabling them to connect to their media over an encrypted HTTPS connection. The new feature is a partnership with certificate authority DigiCert, Plex says the…
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The Pope’s iPad Sold for $30,500 at an Uruguay Charity Auction
It looks like technology brought some support for the poor over in Uruguay earlier this week. The Castells auction house reportedly hosted a charitable auction, having Pope Francis’ old iPad up for the taking. There are a lot of antique fanatics out there, and such an item was bound to…
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Urgent Certificate Patch Issued by Microsoft to Address ‘Out-of-Band’ Foreign Certificates
It is said that Microsoft normally releases their patches and updates on the second Tuesday of every month, also known by most as being Patch Tuesday. This time however, they have apparently been forced to release another update having discovered that foreign encryption certificates for big websites, such as Google,…
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Apple’s Software Update Breaks Due To Expired SSL Certificate
Apple had been experiencing problems with their certificates this weekend. More specifically, the Software Update certificate required in order to communicate with Apple’s Software Update servers had apparently expired. The expiry issue led to countless users being greeted with a message emphasising that “An Error has occurred. The certificate for…
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