So, you’ve got your business up and running successfully, and you’re ready to take the internet by storm. But have you prepared your website to be protected against cyber-attacks? Sometimes as business owners, technical website elements can slip past the radar. At teclan, we ensure that your website is protected and prepared — whether you’re …
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This is the second year that teclan has been Cyber Essentials certified. It demonstrates our commitment to cyber security in everything we do. Cyber Essentials certificates are issued by the National Cyber Security Centre. They follow a process evidencing that a company adheres to strict processes and procedures. They make sure that internal systems, network …
Google have announced that from October, the latest version of Chrome will flag an error up on any websites without an SSL that allow customers to input information such as search fields or newsletter subscriptions.
It’s March 2017 and all the data coming in from Google and Bing’s constant re-indexing and reshuffling of their algorithms confirms what we already knew, however we’re going to state it here again just in case some people haven’t yet heard. Your website should have a SSL certificate (padlock) installed and every page on your …
3 reasons why you need a full SSL certificate on your website, today Read More »
Here at teclan, as web hosting providers, we often get support queries from you telling us that you are having trouble sending or receiving emails, or that your password is not being accepted. This is usually down to third party platforms having done an update or it’s an issue with your ISP, which can cause …
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You may have received an email recently or read online or in the press about the recent POODLE SSL 3.0 vulnerability and are wondering what it is, and does it affect you. Should you be worried? What is POODLE? The POODLE attack (which stands for “Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption”) is a man-in-the-middle …
Regular followers of teclan’s blog posts over the years will have previously noted our recommendation back in 2012 that Google required your checkout pages to be encrypted by an SSL certificate (golden padlock). Well the non-SSL website pigeons are now coming home to roost. We have now seen Google starting to enforce this policy by …
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It might seem like common sense, but you should really look into backing up your e-commerce website regularly, says Flora.
 Recent security announcements have highlighted an urgent exploitable bug in the OpenSSL protocol. This is the part of the internet that is used whenever you access a website through a secure connection – usually when a padlock appears in your web browser. Whilst the news was spun by many as a major security issue …
OpenSSL HeartBleed bug – a security vulnerability? Read More »
It has been brought to our attention in recent days that there are now several accounts from other hosting companies and email providers of emails to @live.com, @outlook.com and @hotmail.com being blocked from delivery due to Microsoft’s own blacklists. This is not wholly uncommon. Microsoft have blocked several email servers in the past (e.g. NHS …
Microsoft email blacklists – why many people are unable to send to Hotmail. Read More »
