HSTS (HTTP Strict Transport Security) protects your secure web site against “security downgrade attacks”. E.g. it stops people from accessing insecure versions of your site or pages when secure versions are available. This, in turn, helps prevent man-in-the-middle and other types of attacks on people using your web site. HSTS is a very simple and […]
Website forms are ubiquitous. Every site needs them to engage visitors, collect information, makes sales, etc. They are easy to add to your site but not necessarily easy to do right. In healthcare it is especially important to ensure all forms used on your website are HIPAA compliant forms. There are plenty of free or […]
LuxSci has been approached by many people asking for VPN (Virtual Private Network) services. When we ask them why, they indicate that they use wireless hotspots (like at Starbucks and other public places) that are insecure and untrusted and they want to be sure that their email is secure and encrypted there.* Note that even if the […]
Our sales staff have been asked this question countless times. It is a natural assumption that because SSL and TLS encryption of email (and web sites) requires use of an “SSL certificate”, that one must buy an SSL certificate in order to use such a service. Fortunately, the answer is always You do not need to buy your […]
When sending outbound email from an email program (like Outlook or Thunderbird) or from a mobile device (like iPhone or Blackberry) that is not using Premium MobileSync, your program or device connects to our outbound email servers using an Internet protocol called “SMTP” (The Simple Mail Transport Protocol). An email server, however, does lots of […]
