3 Reasons to Secure Your Website With SSL
What is SSL? SSL stand for Secure Sockets Layer and is a protocol used to encrypt data exchanged between your browser and a web server. The protocol uses digital “keys”…
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Domain Name Scams
If you own a domain name, chances are you’ve received an “invoice” in the mail to change registrars or get a domain “listing”. A client of ours recently received this…
Website-Security – Part-4 – Password-Protection
Password protection is everybody’s responsibility. In this article, we discuss passwords as a security issue. Most of us have accounts on many different sites – everything from online banking, shopping,…
Website Security – Part 3 – Securing Applications
Many websites make use of one or more applications. Any code written to provide some particular set of functions can be considered an application. Some applications are custom designed, some…
Website Security – Part 2 – Server Security
Hackers have many different ways to break in to your website. In this article, we discuss some basic server security issues and how they may or may not affect your…
Website Security – Part 1
Most of us like to think of our website as a place that good honest users visit to find the latest information, product or service we are offering. Usually, the…
PCI Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)
Internet based credit card fraud has been on the rise for years. We’ve all heard horror stories about someone having their credit card information stolen and misused to buy things…