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Free SSL Certificates

January 27, 2010September 24, 2013 Richard BurleyLeave a Comment on Free SSL Certificates

http://www.startssl.com is offering an amazing community service by allowing people to generate & manage free SSL certificates for themselves! It’s real, it’s true and it works! This is a huge step forward for the internet and all other companies offering SSL certificates / claiming that they care about the security of the internet / internet

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Password Security

January 22, 2010September 24, 2013 Richard BurleyLeave a Comment on Password Security

An interesting article in “The Register” about poor password security, and 3 helpful resources (at the very bottom of the piece) for improving yours! Worthwile reading for anyone who uses passwords, i.e. everyone!!! Regardless how “secret” you keep your password(s), if they are not complex enough they WILL be easily compromised. So please review the

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Easy Windows Self Signed SSL Certificates

January 14, 2010September 24, 2013 Richard Burley1 Comment on Easy Windows Self Signed SSL Certificates

(Shamelessly based on this other blog!) (Oh and if you have no idea what SSL is the read up on it here!) This option does NOT apply if you want to use an SSL certificate which is automatically trusted by users outside your control (i.e. on a website used by clients / the general public). In

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DNS Server Comparison Tool

January 13, 2010September 24, 2013 Richard BurleyLeave a Comment on DNS Server Comparison Tool

Great tool to check if  your DNS settings (inc MX) are replicating consistently across multiple, disparate DNS servers. http://mob.net/~ted/tools

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DNS Checker

December 17, 2009September 24, 2013 Richard BurleyLeave a Comment on DNS Checker

Just thought I’d share: http://www.intodns.com an excellent DNS checker I just found, for those of you who find that sort of thing as interesting / valuable as I do! 🙂

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Email – RBL (Realtime Blackhole List(s))

December 14, 2009September 24, 2013 Richard BurleyLeave a Comment on Email – RBL (Realtime Blackhole List(s))

If you manage your email services & you are experiencing a lot of undelivered / returned / “disappearing” outgoing email, although some outgoing messages get through, but incoming email is always delivered just fine, then it is highly likely that your outgoing email server (which may or may not be the same as your incoming

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