{"id":74600,"date":"2016-09-29T16:14:15","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T16:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=9f688cbc94e0fc110b19ea374f8348c9"},"modified":"2016-09-29T16:14:15","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T16:14:15","slug":"news-story-civilcrime-news-check-your-computer-to-keep-working-securely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=74600","title":{"rendered":"News story: Civil\/crime news: check your computer to keep working securely"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Extra protection is being given to the network hosting important applications like LAA online following an upgrade to our security certificate.<\/p>\n<p>This should not be a problem for the vast majority of people accessing our systems.<br \/>\nBut if you are running older versions of browsers and\/or operating systems you may find that you have compatibility issues.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"windows-xp\">Windows XP<\/h2>\n<p>For example, Microsoft Windows XP pre-Service Pack 3 will not support the new security encryption.<\/p>\n<p>If this applies to you then you should upgrade your operating system to Service Pack 3. You can do this on the web.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"browsers\">Browsers<\/h3>\n<p>You may also experience difficulties with certain browsers. If that is the case then try another browser or look at upgrading the one you are using.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"why-are-you-making-this-change-now\">Why are you making this change now?<\/h3>\n<p>This change is a global one and older certificates are no longer being issued. So, we have to upgrade.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"what-is-the-security-certificate\">What is the security certificate?<\/h3>\n<p>Our security certificate is renewed annually and was called SHA-1. We upgraded to SHA-2 (Secure Hash Algorithm 2).<\/p>\n<p>The advantage of this upgrade for LAA and providers is that we can all benefit from the latest security measures.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"further-information\">Further information<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/help\/browsers\">Browsers<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our security certificate and updating your browsers and operating systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74601,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74600\/revisions\/74601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}