The last few days have seen a particular internet issue, “The Heartbleed Bug”, hit the mainstream media. Terms you may not have heard before are being bandied about as if they are common parlance – OpenSSL, TLS, X.509, RFC, CVE…. So what do you need to know? How serious is this really? Let’s just say […]
Tag: security
The secret life of a password
Passwords. Our access to the internet, to the services we need every day …. and a hindrance when we can’t remember them or we have to reset them. And when we do, we have to use upper case, lower case, numbers, symbols and it must be at least 8 characters long….it seems just too much […]
Online security
Think you do enough to remain secure while online? Password security has been a hot topic recently (a subject we will return to in a later blog) but you need to be ever vigilant as more sophisticated threats emerge on an almost daily basis. We’ve put together the following checklist to ensure your data and […]
