Recently, popular business and employment service LinkedIn allowed one of their SSL/TLS certificates to expire before renewing. This left users with a certificate error when navigating around LinkedIn posts. Causing much user confusion, it quickly became the object of Tweets and online articles. Though brief, the certificate downtime clearly caused negative publicity for LinkedIn, a […]
Month: May 2019
Will my SSL Certificate secure the www. subdomain?

It’s safe to say that www. is the most commonly secured subdomain on the World Wide Web. Many domain owners have their www. subdomain as an exact copy of the root domain due to the commonness of searching for a site by beginning with ‘www.’. Naturally, when securing a domain with SSL, one might wonder […]
Trustico’s SSL/TLS tools: how to guide

Trustico’s SSL/TLS tools are publicly available for use by customers and Resellers for testing and development purposes, as well as for those without access to a server or web hosting panel to generate a CSR on. CSR & Private Key Generator A CSR (Certificate Signing Request) is an encoded text file containing information about the […]
Auto-delete feature added to Google

Responding to community feedback, Google is giving its users a simpler way to control their privacy on its platforms — an auto-delete feature. Location history and web activity both help Google to provide the user with personalized ads and recommendations and to access their commonly visited sites more easily. But, increasingly, users are becoming skeptical […]
Understanding SAN certificates

A SAN certificate is an SSL/TLS certificate which hosts multiple domains and subdomains on the single certificate. It is often called a Multi Domain certificate. They are used for a number of reasons; from server limitations to sheer convenience. What is a SAN? To better understand what a SAN SSL/TLS certificate is, we will need […]