With Thanksgiving just around the corner, we want to give thanks to the oftentimes unsung heroes of website management and security — those who create useful apps and online tools (especially free and open source ones!) Without these tools, keeping websites and the online world as a whole safe would be a much more difficult task.
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Increasing traffic is always a critical concern whether you’ve just launched a website or have been around for a while. After all, whatever the reason you created it in the first place, most people start a site with the intention of it being seen.
If you’re unsure about where to start, we’ve got you covered. Read on to find out how to drive traffic to your website.
As the Internet has grown in usage, so has the prevalence in e-commerce stores. Shopping online has become so normalized these days that many can make all their purchases without leaving their house or entering an actual store.
Seeing as SSLs.com is, well, an SSL website, we cover primarily security-related topics on the blog, as well as everything you need to know about SSL certificates. But what about what comes before SSLs even cross your mind? Before that, you need a website, and before that, you need to know how to buy a domain name for that website. A good one.
If this has been on your mind lately, this guide is for you. Read on to discover all the key points of buying and registering a domain.
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Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have created and uploaded a proof of concept browser extension to the Chrome Web Store that can manipulate text input fields in websites. Why would a group of researchers do such a thing? That would be to show that it’s possible to upload such an extension to Chrome’s Web Store without breaching the browser’s current security and privacy standard, Manifest V3. If this extension can steal passwords and still be approved, there’s no telling how many seemingly legit and safe currently available extensions can do the same.
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Meta recently shared new threat research involving mass disinformation campaigns coming from China and Russia. The tech giant removed accounts and pages across all its platforms related to what it referred to as “the largest known cross-platform covert influence operation in the world.”
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The CEO of Tenable has called out Microsoft for its security practices following an attack on the tech giant’s Azure platform, which was disclosed in early July.