Cyber Security Certifications

Often get asked which Cyber Security courses are worth doing. Well there is an absolute plethora of different courses available to suit relevant backgrounds. A colleague found this and it look pretty useful

Alexa+ – Alexa on Steriods with AI

Echo Dot

Amazon are adding new powers existing Alexas over the coming weeks and months.
More details here

Question is how much privacy will be sacrificed for the enhanced functionality. Scant detail on the original product launch blog.

Domain Name Mismatch – Your site is insecure

I don’t know if Apple, and Google upped the ante, or I had not noticed before, or the SSL tools on the server had not kept updated, but I started getting warnings that my site was not secure. Letsencrypt has done a pretty good job for the last 5 years so I was confused as to why suddenly now , the browsers no longer liked up. Even harder now that MS Edge do not let you easily view the full cert.

A quick test at SSLlabs confirmed that the SSL for farcorfe.org.uk was all ok, but the sub-domain of www.farcorfe.org,uk was the actual issue. The SSL cert had not been validated for the www redirect.

Some quick Googling found this page – https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41097696/letsencrypt-certificate-for-www-and-non-www-domain with the required Certbot commands to add the www to the cert and a restart of Apache got the issue fixed.