The recent breach of Social Media site LinkedIn, in which over 6 million passwords were compromised, is the most recent example showing the importance of encryption. LinkedIn did not encrypt its users’ passwords, making them easy for the criminals to discover. This is hardly the first such incident – and likely won’t be the last – in which a company or public entity did not adequately protect...

With the advancement of technology and a consistently increasing number of websites today, there is now more hosting options available than say, a couple of years ago. First, there were shared hosting and dedicated servers. These are now known as traditional hosting. Then we were introduced to VPS (virtual private server). And in recent years, you have an option to host your website in the Cloud. Though...