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Earlier this week, Google announced a serious exploit which affects all webmasters and users of SSL v3.0. This security vulnerability is a serious issue because out of Alexa’s top one million domains,...
On Wednesday 24th September, 2014, The Red Hat security group released an important vulnerability announcement for bash. The security flaw, coined ‘Shellshock’, allows malicious code execution within the bash shell to take...
Small businesses are being urged to take precautionary measures to protect their businesses online. We host over one million websites, and our advice for businesses is to treat these media reports seriously. The National...
On 7th April 2014 a serious vulnerability in the open-source cryptography library OpenSSL was discovered. It was a severe memory handling bug in their implementation of the TLS Heartbeat extension, which is...
These days, people are spending more time online and logged in. They are also communicating much more than just their credit card numbers. However, if your site doesn’t inspire trust, they’ll leave...
Even if you’ve never heard of the Google Safe Browsing service, you’ve probably used it. Chrome, Firefox and Safari all incorporate the service into their browsers. Services like Trust Inn also use...
2012 continues to be a year of great excitement for 123-reg. We are thrilled to announce the release of Site Scanner, powered by Stop the Hacker. For those not in the know, Site...
While a human virus like Flu can cripple your business if it spreads through your employee base, a computer virus can literally kill your business, yet there is much more you can...
Almost every week the news channels are busy with a story on another big high-profile password breach, the latest being Yahoo investigating a breach via its Yahoo Voices servers. Here at 123-reg we...
You might remember that in May last year some new EU rules came into force. Dubbed the ‘EU cookie law’, the legislation says websites have to get permission from users before storing...
