It is only a matter of time before an unsecured system becomes contaminated and losing valuable data. In addition, poorly secured system that is compromised can be used for a number of illegal activities. It was reported that several major Internet sites were disabled by attacks that were launch through the use of thousands of [...]
A digital certificate is a form of electronic credentials for the Internet. It is issued by a Certification Authority (CA). Basically a CA is an independent, recognized and mutually trusted third party that guarantees that the website operating is who it claims to be. When a CA issues digital certificates, it verifies that the owner [...]
We pass a tremendous amount of information back and forth using internet browser to the Internet everyday. Basically most of the time, the protocol uses in this communication is HTTP or hypertext transfer protocol.
In HTTP, all data is transferred in clear text - data such as userid/password will be transmitted as clear text as well. [...]