Pages Tagged “ssl”
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- It’s amazing more email accounts weren’t hacked back in the 2000s
We’d walk into an internet cafe and rent time on one of their computers. Then we’d log into our primary email account over plain, unsecured HTTP.
- Badgered Over HTTPS
I’ve been checking in on redirected & dead links lately, a few minutes here and there, updating, replacing, and removing where appropriate. And I’m happy to see that a lot of sites have moved to HTTPS. News sites, online stores, social networks, personal sites, publishers…. Not everyone, of course, but it’s a lot easier than […]
- Finally pulled the HTTPS switch!
That took a lot longer than I intended. But I’ve finally made all of Hyperborea.org run over HTTPS. It’s been possible to view the whole site over HTTPS ever since I turned it on for the admin area of this blog years ago, but I left HTTP as the canonical URL and didn’t redirect anything […]
- Adding the S in HTTPS
I finally moved the public side of this blog over to HTTPS last weekend. Traditionally I’ve preferred to put public info on HTTP and save HTTPS for things that need it – passwords, payment info, login tokens, anything that should be kept private — but between the movement to protect more and more of the […]
- EV SSL Buzzword Used for Phishing
One of the great ironies of phishing is that, these days, identity theft via the web tends to work by preying on people’s fear of identity theft. It doesn’t help that most people don’t really understand the technology. The typical phishing message looks something like this: Dear so-and-so. In order for us to protect your […]
- PayPal Asks: What Makes a Safe Browser?
Last month, eWeek reported that PayPal intends to block unsafe browsersfrom accessing their site. They’ve focused on phishing detection and support for Extended Validation SSL Certificates. So what are these features, and why does PayPal think they’re critical? And just which browsers are they likely to block? Phishing protection has an obvious appeal for a […]
- Alphabet Soup: XP SP and EV SSL XSS!
Sorry for the lack of updates this past week. I was just way too busy prepping for our move this weekend. A couple of interesting news bits I noticed when I got into work this morning: It looks like I’ve been lucky with installing Windows XP Service Pack 3. I’ve had no problems with the one machine […]