Moving your website from http: to https: is not a simple task for someone without technical aptitude and expertise. But, while moving to https: can be tricky, there are some real benefits to making the change. Continue reading
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Important Tips for Browsing the Internet Securely
Searching the internet and viewing your favorite websites starts with the internet browser. Two of the most used internet browsers have made the news this week. Continue reading
6.5 Million LinkedIn Passwords Leaked!
Change your LinkedIn passwords! 
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Phishing Scams and Malware Campaigns
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ARCLAN has recently observed an increase in targeted email malware campaigns (phishing scams). The different methods used to entice users into opening attachments or clicking on embedded links is becoming more sophisticated and in some cases disturbing (death threats). Continue reading
9/11 2011, the 10th anniversary
Many think that the next war or attack on the USA with be through the internet, so let’s get the flick on what we can do to protect us. Here are some quick and simplified explanations about internet and computer security. We break it down to 4 potential security holes.
Your PC: This is pretty commonly understood area, so we’re just going to briefly review this. Continue reading
Comodo SSL Compromise
As a GlobalSign SSL partner KO Websites has been notified of a security compromise that affects services that many of us as internet users utilize everyday. So to help keep our clients and friends updated and aware we are passing this notification on to you.
Safe surfing,
KO Websites
As a valued GlobalSign Partner we would like to make you aware of our official company statement on the recent Comodo compromise.
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On March 23 2011, the Certification Authority Comodo announced it had mis-issued 9 SSL Certificates to high profile websites including:
* login.live.com
* mail.google.com
* www.google.com
* login.yahoo.com (3 certificates)
* login.skype.com
* addons.mozilla.orgThe Certificates were issued through one of its unnamed Registration Authority (RA) Partners who had been given transferrable trust rights to issue publicly trusted SSL Certificates.
The fraudulent Certificates have since been revoked, however due to the high profile nature of the mis-issued Certificates, Microsoft, Google and Mozilla have issued browser updates to hardcode the revocation status of the Certificates into the browsers. We advise all GlobalSign customers to update their browsers immediately.
This is a very serious compromise of unprecedented scale. As further details unfold, our security group will publish a full statement. However we wish to strongly iterate that this is a completely standalone attack on the Comodo systems. GlobalSign wishes to confirm to all customers, partners and the industry as a whole that GlobalSign is not affected by the Comodo compromise.