All posts by Cora Quigley

Cora is a digital copywriter for SSLs.com. Having eight years of experience in online content creation, she is a versatile writer with an interest in a wide variety of topics, ranging from technology to marketing.

Apple will stop trusting 2-year SSLs – here’s what it means for you

In February 2020, Apple announced that they would be limiting the allowed lifetime of SSL certificates in their Safari browser from September 1st 2020. The new allowed validity period will be 398 days, which basically amounts to a one-year certificate. 

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Why SSL alone won’t secure your website

A common myth is that an SSL certificate will completely secure your website. This is not the case. While an SSL certificate will certainly help make your website a more secure place to visit, there is far more you need to do to protect your site beyond enabling HTTPS.

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Why we use SSL: a behind the scenes look

These days, SSL certificates are widely regarded as essential for websites to make them more secure. Not only do website owners know this, but general Internet users do too. However, although SSL certificates have become such a given across the web, many people probably aren’t aware of the origin story of these powerful digital certificates.
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The growing threat of phishing sites with SSLs

The unfortunate reality of being an Internet user is that you must be constantly vigilant. Cybercriminals are becoming more sophisticated by the minute, continually coming up with new methods to trick users into handing over their personal information. Phishing is one of them. 

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How Certificate Transparency stops SSL abuse

Certificate Transparency is a framework created by Google that helps verify whether an SSL certificate is real and valid, or fake, forged, or otherwise maliciously acquired. In this blog post, we’ll give a brief overview of why the system was created, how it works, and what it means for you. 

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Picking the best SSL for your site

So you’ve decided to get an SSL certificate. Congratulations! Having SSL on your website will make a big difference to your overall website security, inspire trust in website users, and could even improve search engine rankings. All great things. 

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Sectigo SSL certificate root expiration issue

It has come to our attention that some of our customers have experienced outages in their website’s services or errors caused by a Sectigo Root certificate expiration on May 30.
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