An Indian-based multinational mobile advertising company, Inmobi, has agreed to pay a fine of $950,000 to the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for using Wi-Fi signals to secretly track phone users in the country, obtaining their locations for adverts on their mobile phones. InMobi was founded in 2007. The company has financial support from the […]
Month: July 2016
Hyperloop One Opens Their First Manufacturing Plant In Nevada
In the middle of the Nevada Desert, a revolutionary method of high speed transport is finally starting to come to life. This is the Hyperloop, a proposed supersonic form of transport similar to something you might see on popular cartoons like ‘The Jetsons’ and ‘Futurama’. The Hyperloop was first put forward by inventor/entrepreneur Elon Musk, […]
Anonymous Shuts Down Brazilian Court For Blocking WhatsApp
The Brazilian branch of Anonymous has attacked the website of a court in the country for unfairly blocking the mobile messaging application system, WhatsApp. On Tuesday July 19, the 2nd Criminal Court of Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro, ordered the country’s telecom operators to block WhatsApp over its failure to surrender user data to police, […]
Edward Snowden Creates Device To Alert User When Their Mobile Is Being Tracked
NSA hacktivist and whistleblower Edward Snowden has begun a project with hardware hacker Andrew Huang to design a phone case that alerts users if their device is being unknowingly used by outside threats to pinpoint your location. The problem has stemmed from the use of mobile phones by reporters and activists in war ridden countries […]
What Is A Datagram ? – How Datagrams Work
A Datagram is a self-contained, independent entity of data carrying sufficient information to be routed from the source to the destination computer without relying on earlier exchanges between a source computer and the destination computer as well as the transporting network. It does this over the ‘User Datagram Protocol’ (UDP), one of the core members of the Internet protocol. Datagram […]
The World’s First Tesla Town In Melbourne Australia
Just 6 months after the first shipment of Tesla Power walls arrive in Australia, Melbourne is set to become the world’s first ever ‘Tesla Town’. Just 6.5km from the Melbourne CBD, where an old paper mill once was, the mini suburb named YarraBend has become an ambassador for sustainable living in Australia. Named as the […]
What Is A Certificate Signing Request (CSR)
A CSR or ‘Certificate Signing Request’ is a block of encrypted text sent from an applicant to the certificate authority in order to apply for and generate an SSL certificate or digital signing certificate. It is most commonly generated in a PKCS #10 format. To generate an SSL certificate, a CSR is required. A CSR […]
How & Why To Use Issuance Insurance (UPDATED)
(UPDATED) This blog post information relates to our old system. Please read the following for instruction on how to use Issuance Insurance in our new system. Issuance Insurance is the ability to reissue your certificate an unlimited amount of times, completely free of charge. Your SSL Certificate will be reissued with any existing validity […]
Approver Email Explained
An approver email is the way a certificate authority can determine whether the customer has full control of or permission to use a domain name. It is required to be completed in order to issue a domain validated certificate. An approver email is always used for domain validation. It is occasionally used in the validation […]
PFX – PKCS #12 – Converting PEM To PFX
In Cryptography, PKCS #12 (PFX) is an archive file format used to store numerous cryptographic items within the same file. PKCS #12 is a member of the ‘Public-Key Cryptography Standards’ family and is most commonly used to bundle together a private key with its counterpart SSL and Intermediate Certificates. This is otherwise known as binding […]