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Do I Need an SSL Certificate for My Website?

Webtivity Designs recommends that ALL webmasters or site owners upgrade their websites with an SSL certificate. An SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) certificate is a digital certificate that authenticates the identity of a website and encrypts information sent to the server using SSL technology. SSL is essential for protecting your website, even if it doesn’t handle sensitive…

Change Your Yahoo Password

If you haven’t been paying attention to your email, Yahoo issued the warning below to their users to change their account passwords.  So be sure to do it!  NOW!! ———————————— Hi Troy, The safety of your Yahoo account, [USERNAME], is important. We’re asking users to change their passwords due to recent security incidents online. While…

World’s Worst Passwords

At the beginning of the year, Mashable released a list of the worst passwords in 2013.  The big news is that the password “password” has finally been dethroned. The usurper to # 1 Worst Password was “123456” which is arguably a somewhat lateral move. Password security is a topic we’ve discussed before, but the following…

2 Million Gmail, Yahoo, Facebook and Twitter Passwords Hacked

According to Trustwave, hackers installed keylogging software on approximately 2 million computers and have been capturing login information for over a month.  Trustwave was able to track down at least one of the servers storing the login credentials in the Netherlands, but other servers still exist that have not been located yet.  On the Netherlands…