Check for Dangerous Root Certificates on Windows with SigCheck
Have you ever heard about Superfish? If you're a System Administrator, you probably do. However, here's a quick recap: Superfish was an advertising company based in Palo Alto, California: it became...
View ArticlePublic Key Infrastructure (PKI) - Definitions and use cases
A Public Key Infrastructure (often abbreviated as PKI) is a set of processes and technological means that allow trusted third parties to verify and / or guarantee the identity of a user, as well as to...
View ArticleSSL certificates: how they work, why they matter
This article is a spin-off from a guide that I wrote some time ago to explain how to create a self-signed SSL certificate and its configuration on Apache and / or Nginx web servers. I decided to...
View ArticleVisual Studio: localhost self-signed SSL certificate expired, not found or...
If you have come across this post it is likely that you have found yourself faced with a problem that most ASP.NET developers who use Visual Studio or Visual Studio Code eventually hit: the periodic...
View ArticleAzure App Service - Pros and Cons
if you've stumbled upon this post you most likely already know MS Azure App Service: a fully managed HTTP-based platform for hosting web applications, REST APIs, and mobile back ends provided by MS...
View ArticleWeb Administrator Training Course
We are pleased to announce the start of our Web Administrator Training Course, a learning path dedicated to all web developers and system administrators wishing to deepen their knowledge in the web...
View ArticleHTTP, SSL/TLS, DNS, URL, DDoS Attacks - Basic Concepts
In this article we will provide a general overview of the main concepts behind the World Wide Web as we know it today: the HTTP protocol, used by the browser to communicate with web servers; SSL / TLS...
View ArticleTypes of Proxy Servers: SOCKS, HTTP(S), FTP, SSL
From an IT networking perspective, a proxy server is a dedicated application that acts as an intermediary between a client that requests a resource and the server that provides that resource. More...
View ArticleAre your HTTPS configuration settings good enough for 2024?
Welcome to our first post of the year! In this article, we will talk about HTTPS, the most important communication protocol used in the World Wide Web. As most of our readers already know, this...
View ArticleA fatal error occurred while creating a TLS client credential. The internal...
If you stumbled upon this post, it most likely means you are seeing the following error flooding your Windows Registry: A fatal error occurred while creating a TLS client credential. The internal...
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