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A little Green Padlock for the Forum
8 years 1 month ago - 8 years 1 month ago #178146
by Gryphon
A little Green Padlock for the Forum was created by Gryphon
Hi,
I have made a small'ish change to the Forum this morning to improve the security of your Userid and Passwords and the bit you will see is there is now a little Green Padlock in the URL line of your Browser and the http:// is replaced with HTTPS:// . The important bit is that it is a little harder for someone to steal your userid, password or email address which might seem strange why anyone would, but stolen credentials are worth money to the naughty side of the Internet.
You don't have to change bookmarks or anything if you don't wont to as you will be redirected, but it might be just a bit slower( second or so) to connect initially.
On some pages you will see the green padlock changes to a small yellow triangle or some other icon depending on your Browser with maybe a message about being an insecure page. This is nothing to worry about, it just means that there are some images on the page that are stored elsewhere like Phtobucket or Flickr etc. and not coming from hcvc.com.au
Regards,
Terry
I have made a small'ish change to the Forum this morning to improve the security of your Userid and Passwords and the bit you will see is there is now a little Green Padlock in the URL line of your Browser and the http:// is replaced with HTTPS:// . The important bit is that it is a little harder for someone to steal your userid, password or email address which might seem strange why anyone would, but stolen credentials are worth money to the naughty side of the Internet.
You don't have to change bookmarks or anything if you don't wont to as you will be redirected, but it might be just a bit slower( second or so) to connect initially.
On some pages you will see the green padlock changes to a small yellow triangle or some other icon depending on your Browser with maybe a message about being an insecure page. This is nothing to worry about, it just means that there are some images on the page that are stored elsewhere like Phtobucket or Flickr etc. and not coming from hcvc.com.au
Regards,
Terry
Last edit: 8 years 1 month ago by Gryphon.
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8 years 4 weeks ago #178240
by Sarge
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ACCO Owner, Atkinson dreamer.
Replied by Sarge on topic A little Green Padlock for the Forum
Well done Terry, a little Chrissy present from you that we will all appreciate.

Sarge

ACCO Owner, Atkinson dreamer.
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8 years 4 weeks ago #178241
by Gryphon
Replied by Gryphon on topic A little Green Padlock for the Forum
Hi,
If I didn't do it Google was going to start scaring the members who use the Chrome browser and the others will follow eventually.
security.googleblog.com/2016/09/moving-t...more-secure-web.html
Terry
If I didn't do it Google was going to start scaring the members who use the Chrome browser and the others will follow eventually.
security.googleblog.com/2016/09/moving-t...more-secure-web.html
Terry
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