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Mobile Application Security - Why SSL/TLS Certificates Are Essential? Are you wondering why SSL and TLS certificates are essential for a mobile application? Well, here is why

February 22, 2021February 22, 2021 - by Alice - Leave a Comment

Companies spend millions of dollars every year to secure their data and information. By 2022, 170.4 billion dollars is the projected spent on information security. Since cyberspace is extremely vulnerable …

Want to buy an SSL Certificate with Bitcoins? Now It Is Possible If you're looking for a way to purchase a SSL Certificate using Bitcoins, here's how you can do that

September 17, 2020September 17, 2020 - by Alice - Leave a Comment

Bitcoin is a virtual cryptocurrency whose popularity has stunningly grown over the recent past. As of 10th December 2019, the number of bitcoins that were in circulation hit 17.3 million. …

Cloud / Cyber Security / Privacy & Compliance / Servers & Services / Web

Securing Databases in the Cloud: 4 Best Practices If you are storing databases in the cloud, it’s less a question of if you’ll be attacked, but more of when it will happen: to minimize your liability, you need to take proactive steps to secure your databases.

November 26, 2019April 18, 2021 - by Gilad David Mayaan - Leave a Comment

In October 2019, Adobe faced a data breach in which around 7 million Creative Cloud accounts were compromised. The source of the breach? A database that was directly exposed to …

Cyber Security / Servers & Services / Web

Enable TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2 on Windows 7 and Windows 8 - OS + Regedit patches A small guide explaining how to activate the secure TLS 1.1 and 1.2 protocols on Windows 7 and Windows 8 and fix a critical security risk, and two useful patches you can download to ease up the process

October 9, 2019January 7, 2021 - by Ryan - 3 Comments.

As you might already know, TLS version 1.0 is not safe anymore and should be disabled, just like SSL 2.0 and SSL 3.0: if you want to know why you …

Cyber Security / Privacy & Compliance / Servers & Services / Web

Encryption in-transit and Encryption at-rest - Definitions and Best Practices An extensive overview of the two main encryption methods available today: how they work and how we can use them to protect our personal data from unauthorized access

March 25, 2019June 9, 2021 - by Ryan - 1 Comment

In the latest few years the world wide web has experienced an exponential growth of hackers, malwares, ransomwares and other malicious software or parties which is constantly trying to find …

Coding / Servers & Services / Tools & Utilities

OpenSSL - How to convert SSL Certificates to various formats - PEM CRT CER PFX P12 & more How to use the OpenSSL tool to convert a SSL certificate and private key on various formats (PEM, CRT, CER, PFX, P12, P7B, P7C extensions & more) on Windows and Linux platforms

October 25, 2018March 16, 2021 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

In this post, part of our "how to manage SSL certificates on Windows and Linux systems" series, we'll show how to convert an SSL certificate into the most common formats …

Cyber Security / Servers & Services

SSL Certificates - Standards, formats and file extensions: PEM, CER, CRT, DER, P7B, PFX, P12 A useful overview of the most common formats and file extensions for SSL & TLS Certificates based upon the X.509 v3 standard

October 24, 2018October 25, 2018 - by Ryan - 1 Comment

In this article, part of our SSL Certificates tutorial series, we'll talk about the most used formats and file extensions that you might stumble upon while working with SSL certificate …

Linux / Servers & Services / Web

VSFTPD - How to configure a different home folder for each user A short guide explaining how to configure VSFTPD, the popular FTP service for Linux, to give a specific home folder for each FTP user

October 18, 2018October 18, 2018 - by Ryan - 2 Comments.

We already talked about VSFTPD in this post, where we explained how to configure the service on a Linux CentOS machine, and also in this other post, where we explained how to …

Coding / Servers & Services / Tools & Utilities

IIS URL Redirect HTTP to HTTPS excluding one or more folders How to configure IIS to rewrite or redirect all HTTP requests to HTTPS except the files in a specific subfolder (or more) with a web.config rewrite rule

October 17, 2018January 7, 2021 - by Ryan - 4 Comments.

If you've stumbled upon this post, it most likely means that you're trying to use the rewrite/redirect features of IIS to redirect all the HTTP requests coming to your website …

Servers & Services / Web / Windows

hMailServer - Open Source Mail Server for Windows with POP3, SMTP, IMAP, AntiVirus/AntiSpam and more Introducing hMailServer, an Open Source Mail Server for Windows with POP3, SMTP, IMAP, AntiVirus/AntiSpam and more

August 15, 2018January 7, 2021 - by Dark - Leave a Comment

Being able to send and receive e-mail message without relying to external services is often an handy feature of any dedicated server, be it a dedicated/hosted one or a VPS/cloud-based …