Checking for insecure references

Insecure content is one of those things that can be tricky to find, even though it’s easy to workaround.  Let’s start by being clear about what we’re talking about. Insecure content is when your website itself is using HTTPS (the address starts with https://) but some of the content links (eg. images, javascript, stylsheets, etc.)…

HTTP Forever

The web is getting more and more secure, which is good news given all the data breaches, malware, ransomware, and other cyber security incidents that are littering the news these days (or at least, my news feed, but that could be of the blogs that I follow!). I suppose I should be more specific, and…

HTTP is dead

I really should stop with the clickbait headlines!  A couple of months ago I posted about how SEO is dead and now I’m doing it again. Well, this time I can safely say that HTTP is not in fact dead.  But it is losing out to HTTPS, as more and more websites are going secure. There are…

Going HTTPS with Cloudflare

Having already made my WCG Online project secure (as detailed in a previous post), it’s been on my list for a while to do the same with this website. But I’d heard good things about Cloudflare and wanted to give them a try. Well I’m glad I did, it was so easy and straight forward.…