As you may or may not know, Microsoft’s original Secure Boot certificates, issued in 2011, begin expiring in late June 2026. Most Windows machines will receive these updated certificates automatically. It should be noted, in some cases where administrative update procedures, like WSUS, are in place you may find that this update will need to… Read More
If your organization is running Microsoft Exchange 2007/2010, you may not be aware that the Self-Signed Exchange Certificate that is installed by default during installation has a validation period of 5 years. If you start getting the Outlook security prompt pictured below, than chances are your certificate has expired. Fortunately Microsoft has made the process… Read More
If you have ever done work with the Government or Military, then you know all too well that in order to access nearly any Government website you need a CAC card. Beyond needing a CAC, your machine needs to have the DOD Root CA’s installed on it as well. Our previous article Custom DOD Cert… Read More
If you are like me then one of your biggest pet peeve’s with Nginx is its lack of authentication methods like those so easily accessible in Apache. Beyond that, if you would like to add an authentication method to Nginx, it will typically require a recompile. If you are running Debian or Ubuntu then I… Read More
Recently when logging into the StartCom control panel using FireFox I received the error pictured below. After some quick Googling, I was able to find a StartCom forum post from other users reporting the same issue. The following steps fixed the issue up for me. The fix for the error above is below. Please see picture… Read More
Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority (CA), run for the public’s benefit. Let’s Encrypt is a service provided by the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG). The key principles behind Let’s Encrypt are: Free: Anyone who owns a domain name can use Let’s Encrypt to obtain a trusted certificate at zero cost. Automatic: Software running on… Read More
If you have ever done work with the Government or Military, then you know all too well that in order to access nearly any Government website you need a CAC card. Beyond needing a CAC, your machine needs to have the DOD Root CA’s installed on it as well. There are many sites that provide… Read More