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gdpr privacy

GDPR Lands in Three Days — A Practical Checklist for Website Operators

GDPR takes effect May 25. A practical, non-lawyer guide for site operators: IP addresses, cookie consent, vendor inventories and the 72-hour breach clock.
· 6 min read
ssl tls

Certificate Lifetimes Just Got Cut to 825 Days — and the Trend Points Shorter

Newly issued TLS certificates are now capped at 825 days. Why the industry keeps cutting lifetimes, and why calendar reminders won't save you anymore.
· 6 min read
ddos security

1.35 Terabits Per Second — What the GitHub DDoS Teaches Everyone Else

How a 1.35 Tbps memcached amplification attack knocked GitHub offline for ten minutes — and what the record DDoS teaches every team about preparation.
· 6 min read
security performance

Meltdown and Spectre — Why Your Site May Get Slower Without a Single Deploy

Meltdown and Spectre patches carry a real performance cost. Why your site may get slower with no code change — and how to baseline response times now.
· 6 min read
https chrome

Chrome 62 Marks Your Forms "Not Secure" — Time to Finish the HTTPS Migration

Chrome 62 flags any HTTP page with a text input as Not Secure — search boxes included. What changed, who's affected, and a practical migration checklist.
· 5 min read
security breaches

The Equifax Breach — Anatomy of an Unpatched Vulnerability

Equifax lost data on roughly 143 million people to a Struts flaw patched six months earlier. Lessons on software inventory, patch SLAs and detection.
· 6 min read
dns ssl

CAA Records Explained — Control Which CAs Can Issue Your Certificates

From September 8, every certificate authority must check CAA records before issuing. What CAA is, the syntax, and how to add it without breaking anything.
· 6 min read
security ransomware

WannaCry — The Patch Existed for Two Months. Why Wasn't It Installed?

WannaCry is tearing through networks with a flaw Microsoft patched in March. What the worm teaches about patch cadence, EOL systems and tested backups.
· 5 min read
aws outages

The S3 Outage — Why Your Status Page Can't Live on Your Own Infrastructure

Amazon's four-hour S3 outage broke half the web — and AWS's own dashboard couldn't turn red. Why status pages must live on independent infrastructure.
· 6 min read
security cloudflare

Cloudbleed — What a Leaking CDN Teaches About Shared Infrastructure

Cloudflare's edge leaked memory from unrelated sites into cached pages for months. What Cloudbleed teaches about shared infrastructure and secrets.
· 7 min read
http2 performance

HTTP/2 Is Ready — What It Actually Means for Your Site

HTTP/2 is finally deployable — multiplexing, header compression, one connection. What changes, how to enable it on nginx, and which old habits to unwind.
· 6 min read
dns ddos

The Dyn Attack — DNS Is the Single Point of Failure Everyone Forgets

Last Friday a botnet of cameras and DVRs took down Dyn's DNS — and Twitter, Reddit and Spotify with it. Lessons on DNS redundancy, TTLs and monitoring.
· 6 min read

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