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Despite SSL being widely used, Java mutual SSL authentication (also referred to as 2-way SSL authentication or certificate based authentication) is a fairly simple implementation when understanding the key concepts of how mutual SSL authentication works. Today I noticed that...
In one of my previous posts about SSL implementation is poor across South African financial institutions, I raised the issue that most local banks do not implement security properly. As of yesterday, Google Chrome as launched enhancements, highlighting the insecurity of...
With the recent security issues across many South African mobile iOS applications, I thought it would be an important exercise to establish how well South African financial institutions have implemented transport layer security across their online financial services. Anyone can run...
I had been hosting with eApps.com for years, but as great as the company was in the beginning, support over the years deteriorated to such an extent that even with dedicated hosting I worried about technical glitches as their support system...
The latest version of Synology DSM introduces a Squid proxy which allows you to speed up web-browsing within your local LAN due to proxy-caching web fragments. By the looks of it, Synology still needs to improve on the admin functionality,...
If you host your blog via WordPress, you certainly would have installed the W3TC plugin. I only recently noticed that my blog configuration showed a number of errors. It started off with CORS errors as part of the new theme...
Cloudflare has been running on my blog now for a couple of days, and analytics have started to show on my (free) Cloudflare account. It’s quite interesting to see that over 50% of my traffic and hits have been cached through...
If you have decided to use W3 Total Cache as your caching mechanism, the next logical step is to use CloudFlare as an accelerator. Think of CloudFlare as your website accelerator (in simple terms it’s a distributed hosted nginx server). Enabling...
Once your WordPress installation is up and running and you are satisfied with the plugins and themes you have installed, it’s time to optimize your installation for performance. I would leave this task as the last step in any blog-installation,...
Once you have designed a website, you will be faced with the challenge to “mobilize” your content. While RSS feeds allow you to provide content on a mobile device, there is nothing better than an almost true mobile experience. WPtouch and...
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