HTTPS – Ryadel

Are your HTTPS configuration settings good enough for 2024? A brief review of all the HTTPS protocols (from SSL v1 to TLS v1.3), a list of their known vulnerabilities, and how to secure your web server

January 2, 2024January 2, 2024 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

Welcome to our first post of the year! In this article, we will talk about HTTPS, the most important communication protocol used in the World Wide Web. As most of …

Cyber Security / Data Security / Servers & Services / Web

Webhooks: what they are and how to secure them A brief overview of what webhooks are and how to secure them (along with their data) using encryption, authentication, HTTPS, and more

August 22, 2023August 22, 2023 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

In the digital age we live in, web applications are at the heart of business operations, from processing financial transactions to interacting with customers. But how do these applications communicate …

Cyber Security / Servers & Services / Web

Types of Proxy Servers: SOCKS, HTTP(S), FTP, SSL A high-level overview of the various proxy server protocols available nowadays and the main benefits they provide

November 3, 2022November 3, 2022 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

From an IT networking perspective, a proxy server is a dedicated application that acts as an intermediary between a client that requests a resource and the server that provides that …

Coding / Cyber Security / Servers & Services / Web

HTTP, SSL/TLS, DNS, URL, DDoS Attacks - Basic Concepts A high-level overview of some basic World Wide Web concepts: HTTP Protocol, SSL / TLS Certificates, Domain Name Servers, URLs, DDoS Attacks

June 7, 2022June 10, 2022 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

In this article we will provide a general overview of the main concepts behind the World Wide Web as we know it today: the HTTP protocol, used by the browser …

ASP.NET / Cloud / Coding / Cyber Security / Data Security / Linux / Operating Systems / PHP / Privacy & Compliance / Servers & Services / Web / Windows

Web Administrator Training Course A learning path to acquire the necessary skills to configure, manage and administer a web server on Windows, Linux, and in the Cloud

April 27, 2022April 27, 2022 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

We are pleased to announce the start of our Web Administrator Training Course, a learning path dedicated to all web developers and system administrators wishing to deepen their knowledge in the …

ASP.NET / Cloud / Coding / Servers & Services / Web

Azure App Service - Pros and Cons Advantages and drawbacks of MS Azure App Service, a fully managed HTTP-based PaaS for hosting Web Applications, REST APIs, and mobile back ends

March 16, 2022March 29, 2022 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

if you've stumbled upon this post you most likely already know MS Azure App Service: a fully managed HTTP-based platform for hosting web applications, REST APIs, and mobile back ends …

Cyber Security / Servers & Services / Web

SSL certificates: how they work, why they matter A short guide explaining how the TLS (Transport Layer Security) cryptographic protocol works and the importance it has to establish secure and verified connections

October 15, 2021November 3, 2021 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

This article is a spin-off from a guide that I wrote some time ago to explain how to create a self-signed SSL certificate and its configuration on Apache and / …

Cyber Security / Operating Systems / Web / Windows

Check for Dangerous Root Certificates on Windows with SigCheck How to protect your Windows machine from unsafe root certificates such as Superfish, Komodia, PrivDog, eDellRoot using the free SigCheck tool from Sysinternals

June 11, 2021 - by Alice - Leave a Comment

Have you ever heard about Superfish? If you're a System Administrator, you probably do. However, here's a quick recap: Superfish was an advertising company based in Palo Alto, California: it …

Coding

Firefox - This address is restricted - Override Fix How to allow one or more non-standard HTTP / HTTPS ports from being opened by Mozilla Firefox, bypassing the "this address is restricted" error for good

April 16, 2019 - by Ryan - 4 Comments.

Mozilla Firefox is definitely a great browser and the developers community put a lot of effort on the security aspects, preventing malicious software and/or attackers from doing any harm to …

Coding / Servers & Services / SQL / Windows

SQL Server - Call a URL using GET or POST method and fetch Status Code and Response Text How to execute a GET or POST call to an external URL within a Stored Procedure (using HTTP or HTTPS protocol) and retrieve the StatusCode and ResponseText

November 9, 2018January 7, 2021 - by Ryan - 4 Comments.

We already talked about the MSXML2.XMLHTTP and MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP objects in an older post: these objects provides methods and properties for server-safe HTTP access between different Web servers and can be used to exchange …