Stack Overlap

02/14/2023

Internet Explorer will be mostly gone after today, unless you are still running an unsupported version of Windows like 7 and 8.1. Most website and app developers have already moved on from it years ago, though.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/02/microsoft-will-forcibly-remove-internet-explorer-from-most-windows-10-pcs-today/

08/27/2020

We had a visit from Hurricane Laura this morning. There are some fallen trees, debris, Internet issues, and power outages, but otherwise we're okay!

07/06/2020

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03/03/2020

If you use Let's Encrypt with Stack Overlap's hosting, your SSL certificates were not affected by this issue. But just in case the mass revocation tomorrow flags anything it shouldn't have, all LE SSL certificates were force renewed today as a precaution. There's nothing you need to do.

Let's Encrypt users will need to manually force-renew once to avoid downtime.

02/21/2020

Those with .org domains might want to renew them in advance (10 years max) before this hits. Need help? Contact us!

Since 2006, the average annual fee increase has been less than 5 percent.

01/15/2020

It's well known the NSA has exploits they keep for themselves, but now they found one so bad that they privately disclosed it to Microsoft. Maybe they learned from their role in the WannaCry catastrophe? Keep your systems patched!

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/01/patch-windows-10-and-server-now-because-certificate-validation-is-broken/

Crypto library bug allows spoofing of certificates, but no attacks in wild—yet.

01/01/2020

Happy New Year! We all survived the 2020 bug (which doesn't exist). Here's to those that worked hard mitigating Y2K in time and those planning ahead for the 2038 Unix timestamp issue.

https://time.com/5752129/y2k-bug-history/
"The innumerable programmers who devoted months and years to implementing fixes received scant recognition. [...] It was a tedious, unglamorous effort, hardly the stuff of heroic narratives — nor conducive to an outpouring of public gratitude, even though some of the fixes put in place in 1999 are still used today to keep the world’s computer systems running smoothly."

Some of the fixes put in place in 1999 are still used today to keep the world’s computer systems running smoothly

09/25/2019

Any website running vBulletin 5.0 to 5.5.4 needs to update immediately. Your server could be exploited as easily as posting a comment.

Devs push a fix for the flaw, but hackers are still hitting unpatched sites.

06/29/2019

Happy Birthday, Stack Overlap! The web is better with a trusted guide (and cats). Here's to another year!

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06/26/2019

The voting for this year's Locals Love Us contest ends this Sunday 6/30 at midnight. Stack Overlap needs your vote in Web Design, Software Development, and Graphic Design!

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05/17/2019

The Internet will never forget you, Tardar Sauce AKA Grumpy Cat. Thanks for all the laughs. 😭

“Some days are grumpier than others...”

04/29/2019

Today is the deadline for voicing concerns over a proposal to remove price caps on one of the Internet's oldest domain registries: .ORG. If you have a .ORG, .BIZ. or .INFO domain name, please submit a comment today.

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