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Beware of phishing, scamming email

By robert / April 20, 2022 / 0 Comments

We want to warn all customers against frequent attacks by email. These attacks often start with phishing email (see image), that try to steal your login information. If you click on the links in the email, the attackers now have full access to your emailbox. This can be used to send out spam to your…

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Polkit Vulnerability for all major Linux distros

By robert / January 27, 2022 / 0 Comments

Last night, security firm Qualys released information about a critical vulnerability in all major Linux distributions. The vulnerability is due to a bug in the “Polkit” program and is labeled CVE-2021-4034. Polkit is a program that allows unauthorized processes to communicate with authorized processes. By exploiting the bug, a local user can easily gain root privileges on…

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Cookie Script

By Rutger / October 6, 2021 / Comments Off on Cookie Script

TL;DR we found the best Cookie compliance script. Cookie script makes it easier to comply with the European AVG/GDPR law, which has been in force since May 25, 2018. What is the GDPR? The GDPR is a European privacy regulation. It ensures the careful processing of personal data by businesses and organisations. For instance, you…

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Access control per account

By Rutger / October 5, 2021 / Comments Off on Access control per account

For many years our resellers can control their customers’ access to specific functionality of the control panel. But it was on or off. No granular control. Let’s say that DNS management is hard to understand for your customers, then you usually switch this off. Same goes for ordering. Perhaps some of your customers order a…

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How to Optimize Site Performance for Core Web Vitals

By Rutger / June 8, 2021 / Comments Off on How to Optimize Site Performance for Core Web Vitals

There are many factors that affect website rankings, one of which is, site performance. How does your site perform in terms of speed and accessibility? Just this month  Google established a new user experience metric called Core Web Vitals. Core Web Vitals aims to put the most optimized website in terms of performance on top of…

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Firefox’s new Site Isolation Security Architecture

By Rutger / May 28, 2021 / Comments Off on Firefox’s new Site Isolation Security Architecture

Online there are plenty of untrustworthy websites that could overpass the initial security in your primary browser. Which is why Firefox developed a new Site Isolation Security. With the main purpose of preventing malicious websites from accessing or stealing information from your accounts on other websites.  The process of site Isolation security is separating web…

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WordPress Proposes Blocking Google’s FLoC

By Rutger / April 25, 2021 / Comments Off on WordPress Proposes Blocking Google’s FLoC

In the recent announcement from WordPress, they state that they are treating Google’s new FLoC tracking technology as a security concern and may block it by default on WordPress sites. Google’s Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC) received a lot of criticism concerning privacy. “FLoC is meant to be a new way to make your browser…

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Am I FLoCed? A New Site to Test Google’s Invasive Experiment

By Rutger / April 5, 2021 / Comments Off on Am I FLoCed? A New Site to Test Google’s Invasive Experiment

 Am I FLoCed is one of an effort to uncover the invasive practices of the adtech industry—Google included. It is a new site where you can check if you are being subjected to the latest advertising experiment, FLoC. What is FloC? Federated Learning of Cohorts or FLoC is Google’s new advertising technology intended to replace…

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DuckDuckGo Browser and Extension

By Rutger / February 25, 2021 / Comments Off on DuckDuckGo Browser and Extension

DuckDuckGo describes itself as “the search engine that doesn’t track you.” Although DDG is better known for its privacy-focused search engine, the company has expanded into making its own Privacy Browser app for Android and IOS. The DDG Privacy Browser has the speed you need, the browsing features you expect (like tabs & bookmarks), and…

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The Search Engine That Doesn’t Track You

By Rutger / February 11, 2021 / Comments Off on The Search Engine That Doesn’t Track You

THERE’S A NEW battleground in the browser wars: user privacy. Just recently, we published an article about Brave browser and how effective its tracker blocking technologies. So here’s another talk of the town privacy-focused search engine that will help you enjoy the internet without having to worry about leaving a digital footprint.  What is DuckDuckGo?…

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