Updating your godaddy certs during the G2 intermediate hierarchy to the TLS Root CA - R1 hierarchy

 

If you use godaddy TLS certificates you should be aware of some changes during the transition from the G2 certificates to the new R1 Certificates.

First off when you download your certificates from godaddy, you will also need to go get the GoDaddy TLS Root CA - R1 to G2 Cross Certificate and the GoDaddy TLS Root CA - R1.  

The TLS R1 to G2 Cross Certificate will need to be installed in your intermediate certificate library on windows and the TLS Root CA - R1 will need to go in your trusted root certificate library.  On apache you will need to add the certs to your apache2 cert library typically located here /etc/ssl/certs/.  On apache tomcat, you will need to add the certs to your windows library as well if your hosting tomcat on windows otherwise you will need to add it to your certificate key.

You will need to restart the computer or the web server for the certificates to take affect.   Chrome may lag behind if you don't shut the browser down and relaunch it after you added the certificates to the server.  Once I got the certificate update sorted with the TLS CA Root and the Cross Certificate.

How to make google calendar more secure

With the rash of spam and phishing attempts lately, I would recommend making the following changes to your google calendar settings to secure your account.  By default, Google Calendar automatically parses your emails for invites and displays them on your calendar before you even click accept.  If you see a calendar event you don’t recognize please don’t press any links in it and delete the event or label it as SPAM.

How to stop unwanted google calendar invitations.

Go to calendar.google.com -> Settings: -> General or click this link https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/r/settings

Change guest permissions from “From everyone”

To either “Only if sender is known” or “When I respond to the invitation in email”   I am using “When I respond to the invitation in email”

With regards to the other permissions you will have to make a judgement call for what is best for how you would like to work.  When I set up a calendar event I don’t allow invited guests to change the event, however I do allow them to view who is invited and to invite others to the event.  

Depending on how you want to work you will either add/remove these permissions for the events you set up.  The other setting to modify is the Google Workspace smart features shown below.  You will want to make sure “Show events from Gmail” is unchecked.

Also be careful of any third party plugins or apps that may have access to your google workspaces account.

 

With at least those two settings changed your calendar will be far more secure.