Redcliffe Website Solutions
At some point, there is a good chance your information will be taken from a website. The more websites you sign up to the chances increase further. The best defence is to ensure unique passwords are used for every website, one of the reasons we gave last year for using a password manager like LastPass. … Read more
For many years I resisted trying a password manager for the countless passwords I needed to use, for work and personal use. I didn’t see the need for one when I was able to memorise most of the passwords I used. My banking passwords were always unique, and the same for similarly sensitive services. Some … Read more
If you haven’t already heard about it, Meltdown and Spectre were publicly revealed in 2018 as three security threats taking advantage of vulnerabilities in most CPUs made since 1995. Two of the threats are named together as Spectre, the other is Meltdown. The flaws were discovered in 2017, and are based on two techniques used … Read more
It has been a month since writing HTTP is Not Secure, about the October release of Chrome version 62, and its introduction of viewing HTTP based websites as “Not secure”. So I thought I’d have a look at the usage of the new version of Chrome. In October 2017, Chrome 62 barely registered at only … Read more
HTTP is a familiar acronym in web browsers, even if you don’t know what it means (it’s Hyper Text Transport Protocol if you want to know). Sometimes HTTPS is used, which means it is Secure with an SSL certificate to encrypt information between the web browser and the web server so anyone capturing the information … Read more