Since version 52 of Firefox, many Internet users have noticed that the message "This connection is not secure" suddenly appears on many websites. What is this all about? This message is a new function. Firefox now indicates when filling in forms with password fields if the data transfer to a website is not encrypted with an SSL certificate. ...
Test website on new server
Whenever an existing website is to be moved to a new web server, the question always arises: How can I test or edit the new website while the associated domain still points to the old website? Let's take meinedomain.de as an example. The IP address of the old server is entered in the DNS records for meinedomain.de (and normally also www.meinedomain.de), and all access via ...
Shellshock at enLink
In 1985, the UNIX shell bash, developed by Brian Fox, was widely introduced as a replacement for the Bourne Shell. Since then, a security vulnerability has existed that allows attackers to gain widespread access to systems on which bash is installed. This vulnerability was only discovered last week! The first reports of the Shellshock vulnerability reached deLink on 24.09.2014. ...
Heartbleed at deLink
The small but serious and far-reaching error in the encryption software openSSL, which has become well known outside specialist circles under the name Heartbleed bug, also affects deLink and deLink's customers. OpenSSL with this bug was installed on around 30% of all deLink servers. Immediately after the problem became known, we installed openSSL on all affected servers.