Google has long been an advocate of HTTPS, with measures such as marking all HTTP sites as “Not secure” paving the way to their goal of a fully secure Web — safe.page is their latest initiative. Their latest initiative to promote HTTPS is the new site safe.page, an informative page explaining the importance of HTTPS. […]
Month: March 2019
TLS 1.3, SSL, and why you should upgrade
At Trustico®, a lot of people ask if the SSL certificates we sell are TLS 1.3 compliant. This is a fair question, as many are understandably unaware of the differences between SSL and TLS, and how security certificates work with these protocols. What is TLS? TLS (Transport Layer Security) evolved out of SSL (Secure Sockets […]
Google unveiling its gaming console today
The annual Game Developer’s Conference is in San Francisco, CA, this week and Google is bringing a game changer – no pun intended. Every year, video game developers and thousands of attendees descend upon Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco for the world’s largest professional gaming industry event. The event’s official website says that attendees […]
Understanding Wildcard SSL Certificates
Understanding a domain & subdomain To better understand what a Wildcard SSL certificate is, we will need to understand the difference between a domain & subdomain. A domain is a website address. An example is “trustico.com”; this will point you to Trustico’s website without needing to type in its IP address. To create a website, […]
Today is the World Wide Web’s 30th anniversary
The world wide web, one of humankind’s most revolutionary technologies, celebrates its 30th birthday today. A large part of everyday life for much of the global community, the world wide web is thoroughly embedded into the fabric of developing and developed nations. It has revolutionized the way humans work, socialize, engage in discussion, and communicate […]
ICANN urges full implementation of DNSSEC
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a nonprofit organization dedicated to collaboration towards a secure and globally unified internet, has reacted to increasing reports of attacks on DNS infrastructure by urging registrars to adopt DNSSEC. What is ICANN?An internationally organized corporation that has responsibility for IP address space allocation, protocol identifier assignment, […]
Understanding AI – weak, general & superintelligence
Whether you’ve overheard a discussion concerning its philosophical tribulations or simply scrolled past a news article about some startup’s latest venture into the technology, AI seems to be the talk of the town nowadays. But with AI being implemented everywhere from smartphones to hospitals, performing a seemingly endless number of different functions, it is important […]