Month: October 2014

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Google has updated it’s Webmaster Guidelines

Chris O'Brien October 28, 2014 0 Comments
On Monday 27th October Google published revised guidelines to ask for site owners to modify their robots.txt configuration to allow Google to access additional files that are used to display your website to visitors (these are called CSS and Javascript files) and previously weren't needed for Google to correctly index your website.  Google's new advice is: For optimal rendering and indexing,...
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Are you making the most of your business data?

Andy Smart October 19, 2014 0 Comments
Data quality is a key component of any business.  At its heart, data allows a business to build great and lasting relationships with customers – both internal and external. Building a consistent and holistic view of customers is not easy, however. It’s important to realise the importance of data granularity.  For example, storing a customers name in discrete data fields (title, first name,...
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POODLE Vulnerability – We’ve disabled SSLv3 support on our web hosting servers

Chris O'Brien October 17, 2014 0 Comments
On October 14th 2014 Google released details on the POODLE attack, a padding oracle attack that targets CBC-mode ciphers in the 15 year old SSLv3 security protocol. The vulnerability allows an active "man-in-the-middle" attacker to decrypt content exchanged via an SSLv3 connection. While secure connections primarily use TLS (the successor to SSL), most users were vulnerable because web...
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