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SSL Certificate Upgrade Roll-out for Basicali Accounts

Up until now we've only offered SSL Certificates on our Supercali Linux and Windows services, along with Spanglefish sites. We're now looking to roll out this upgrade option to ...


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Beware of Domain Related Cons

We often see unscrupulous companies trying to make money by fooling our customers into doing business with them. These usually take one of two forms - either they email our cust...


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Don't Fall Foul of Google's Changes - Executive Magazine

Don't Fall Foul of Google's Changes We're pleased to be featured in the December 2018 issue of Executive Magazine. We were invited by Inverness Chamber of Commerce to submit som...


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Advisory Regarding Scam Emails

We've recently been contacted by customers who've received emails from ransomers saying that your accounts have been hacked, that they've infected your PC, that you've been caug...


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Reasons for Adding an SSL Certificate to Your Website

When someone connects to your website using the http protocol everything they type, and everything the website sends to them, is in plain text so anyone can potentially listen i...


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SSL Certificates from Calico UK

You may have wondered why you use "http" when accessing some websites, and "https" for others. With http, any information that goes between your device and the website is transf...


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Website Security Advisory Update

Hosting a website is like a swan swimming on a lake - on the surface everything is smooth, but in reality there's an awful lot of activity going on underneath to maintain the gr...


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Password Advisory Update

Recent news has highlighted just how insecure and vulnerable to leaking our login details can be. News Coverage: Register.com - That's Nonsense - Metro News If you use the same ...


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Google Chrome marks login and credit card pages as Not Secure

Google's Chrome web browser has started marking web pages as "Not Secure" if they are accessed using HTTP (rather than HTTPS) and it finds password or credit card input fields o...


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