Security

Is Google Ranking Websites With SSL higher?

31 May 2017
Dwayne Grimes
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Categories: Google, Security, SSL, Web Rankings

We have been hearing about this since the beginning of the year, and yes we are hearing this from our hosting companies. We used Sucuri a number of times to have a some nasty website attacks cleaned up. They have also recently paired up with some hosting companies such as SiteGround because of the number of attacks across the web.

I watched a recent webinar from Sucuri and they are saying it is true that Google will make your site less important in their search results if you are not using an SSL. This is for straight HTML sites as well as an CMS ECommerce site.

The cost for an SSL is around $100 per year. Installing the SSL and configuring your website to work with the SSL takes a bit of work, but we are use to it. If you are interested in upgrading your site security and need some help feel free to contact us.

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Protecting From WannaCry Ransomware

17 May 2017
Dwayne Grimes
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Categories: Ransomware, Security, Virus

We have been diligently verifying our customers computer systems are up-to-date and protected from the lastest round of Ransomware called “WannaCry”.

Not sure exactly what patches needed to be applied I found a good page from SolarWinds the lists the appropriate patches for a given Operating System.

https://support.solarwindsmsp.com/

Microsoft’s Update Catalog allows you to download the the “.MSU” patches. Microsoft recommends using Internet Explorer to download and install the patches. You may need to set downloads to “enable”. In Internet Explorer Tools, under the Security tab, select “Custom Level.”. Scroll down till you see “Download” and click enable.

For antivirus we have been using Vipre. We received a email from Virpe stating the were already protecting customer before the virus was released. That will save us a considerable hassle. Here is the link the sent us.

https://blog.vipreantivirus.com/important-news/urgent-announcement-wanacryptor-wannacry-information/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiT1RnME5XUXpObU13TVRVeCIsInQiOiJoQ1FNVmJsQjh3YUpmTFFQUEowbDZpUzZFTG1FV3g5NkN4cnNcL2RKN1AzSWZXSlZwaTA0UUFQTHF4N29lMndwSDlcL2pxK0I2QlVSbGJ0V2NPdDBuMnhhUktKOWlHdW1UbG1Lakp0NFNrTFhYV2lhQVFhM2N2elNMWG5mTHJFTUlxIn0%3D

This list above is good to know the patches.  The next step was to disable “SMB1”. I logged onto the clients server and open Powershell as an administrator, and ran the following commands.

sc.exe config lanmanworkstation depend= bowser/mrxsmb20/nsi
sc.exe config mrxsmb10 start= disabled

All of these updates required a reboot of the server.

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