Update your NGINX Config to fix POODLE Vulnerability

I spent quite a while Googling around looking for a good, quick guide to check for and sort the POODLE bug on my client VPS. I found bits and pieces on multiple sites, but no one single post.
Hopefully, this sorts that. This will provide no background into the issue, just how to fix if you run NGINX on Ubuntu. This should also get you to A+ on the SSL Test.

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NCA’s ‘Two-Week Opportunity’ – What you can do now

This is not like my ‘usual’ posts, but something that I think is very important and not overly obvious to your usual computer user. I issued similar guidelines like these to all staff at at my employer today, feel free to use this for yours if you are in a similar boat.

As part of the NCA efforts to combat some pretty nasty ransomware being distributed I have some quick things you can do to help secure your computer(s).

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