Tag: TLS

Cyber Security / Web

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

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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 …

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 Read More
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. 

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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 …

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.  Read More
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

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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 …

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 Read More
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

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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 …

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 Read More
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

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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 …

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 Read More
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

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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 …

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 Read More
ASP.NET / C# / Coding / Servers & Services / Web

ASP.NET C# - The client and server cannot communicate, because they do not possess a common algorithm - How to fix it How to fix the "System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: The client and server cannot communicate, because they do not possess a common algorithm" error by properly configuring the TLS 1.1 & TLS 1.2 cryptographic protocols

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If you've stumbled upon this post, it probably means that you're struggling against a nasty issue affecting one or more of your Web Application Projects when you publish it to …

ASP.NET C# - The client and server cannot communicate, because they do not possess a common algorithm - How to fix it How to fix the "System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: The client and server cannot communicate, because they do not possess a common algorithm" error by properly configuring the TLS 1.1 & TLS 1.2 cryptographic protocols Read More
Coding

Install Postfix 3 on Linux CentOS for sending e-mail over SMTP, SMTPS and STARTTLS A brief tutorial explaining how to install and configure Postfix 3 on a Linux CentOS 7.x machine to send e-mail using SMTP (TCP 25), SMTPS (TCP 465) and/or STARTTLS (TCP 587)

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Few days ago I wrote a post about how to install and configure sSMTP, a simple and free alternative to Postfix and Sendmail which can be used to send e-mail through …

Install Postfix 3 on Linux CentOS for sending e-mail over SMTP, SMTPS and STARTTLS A brief tutorial explaining how to install and configure Postfix 3 on a Linux CentOS 7.x machine to send e-mail using SMTP (TCP 25), SMTPS (TCP 465) and/or STARTTLS (TCP 587) Read More
Cyber Security / Servers & Services / Web

How to create a self-signed TLS SSL certificate for Apache or NGINX to accept HTTPS requests on port 443 A handy guide explaining how to create a self-signed SSL certificate for your NGINX or Apache web site with Linux CentOS 7.x to accept HTTPS requests on port 443

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In this article we'll show you how to create a self-signed TLS/SSL certificate and configure it in Apache or Nginx web server to allow secure, encrypted connections. This tutorial will …

How to create a self-signed TLS SSL certificate for Apache or NGINX to accept HTTPS requests on port 443 A handy guide explaining how to create a self-signed SSL certificate for your NGINX or Apache web site with Linux CentOS 7.x to accept HTTPS requests on port 443 Read More