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Secure your Website with SSL Encryption

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By Schweb Design | Wednesday, May 13, 2015 ( 4 years 10 months )
Secure your Website with SSL Encryption

Internet security continues to be a serious concern for consumers. For businesses, website security is an important step for creating a safe, authentic, and comfortable environment for visitors. A simple step towards security is setting up Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption to keep user data safe as it travels to and from your website.

US Gov says "Stop using Microsoft's IE browser until bug is fixed" ... also Flash Player

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By Schweb Design | Tuesday, April 29, 2014 ( 5 years 11 months )
US Gov says "Stop using Microsoft's IE browser until bug is fixed" ... also Flash Player

US Government warns: "Stop using Microsoft's IE browser until bug is fixed."


"In a rare move that highlights the severity of the security hole in one of the Web's most popular browsers, the US government security team is telling people to stop using Internet Explorer until Microsoft can fix things."
 

Internet Explorer is currently unsafe to use.

Likely soon Microsoft will release updates to fix this issue, but they haven't yet.  
Until then, here's what we recommend:
 

Important Facts on the Recent Heartbleed Security Flaw

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By Schweb Design | Friday, April 11, 2014 ( 5 years 11 months )
Important Facts on the Recent Heartbleed Security Flaw

By now you've probably heard about the Heartbleed security vulnerability.

 

If you haven't, here are a few important facts to know:
 

  1. This week, the Heartbleed bug was detected in recent versions of the most popular SSL/TLS encryption implementation (OpenSSL).  It affected the majority of websites and services on the internet (about 2/3), including our server as well.  
     
  2. We took immediate steps to patch the potential vulnerability in our website & email hosting server and Schweb Design is no longer vulnerable. For more information check out http://heartbleed.com.
     
  3. This is not a vulnerability with our server's SSL or your sites' SSL/TLS or Schweb Design.  Your site is & was not broken, nor are any digital certificates for your domain.
     
  4. We have secured the server and fix this bug:
    1. We have fixed this vulnerability on our server and verified/tested.
    2. We've regenerated all server SSL keys, CSRs, and certificates including yours if you have an SSL certificate on your website (e.g. receive credit card payments).  As a side-effect, you might notice Outlook or your mail client temporarily complain about a new certificate (this should go away shortly after changes propagate).
    3. We've changed all server administrator passwords including all clients' hosting account passwords.  If you'd like your new cPanel hosting account password, just drop us a line and we'll let you know what it is!
       
  5. This has affected all of us, including you.  We have no evidence of any malicious behavior, but we strongly encourage you to please follow our final steps you can take below. 

 

So you've secured the web & email server, now what do I need to do?