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‘Extremely bad’ vulnerability found in widely used logging system

The Verge

Logging is a process where applications keep a running list of activities they have performed which can later be reviewed in case of error. Marcus Hutchins, a prominent security researcher best known for halting the global WannaCry malware attack , noted online that millions of applications would be affected.

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Managing What Matters In the Cloud: The Apps » Data Center.

Data Center Knowledge

Paul Speciale is Chief Marketing Officer at Appcara , which is a provider of a model-based cloud application platform. Numerous IT management tools are available today for use with the cloud, but the rubber meets the road at the level of the application because this is what a user will actually “use.” Cloud Application Management.

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Overcoming the Equation: Security = Friction

CTOvision

We’ve migrated to a userid-password society; as we’ve added layers of security, we password-protect each layer: PC (and now device), network, enclave, application, database, and storage (encryption). It’s much easier to use biometrics or a SmartCard to identify yourself to a system or application. Userids and passwords are almost free.

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Build WebRTC Media Muscle

Spearline Testing

Users’ firewalls configuration and intentional or unintentional throttling of bandwidth. Inform users about router QoS settings that prioritize device bandwidth for more demanding applications. Codecs are the devices or applications that compress and decompress media files for transmission across devices and networks.

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Technology Short Take 136

Scott Lowe

This article by Joshua Fox outlines how and when to use each of the various types of firewalls offered by AWS. Operating Systems/Applications. Linux may be coming to the Apple M1 chip. And speaking of the Apple M1 chip, Ernie Smith shares how he managed to “break” his M1-powered Mac using Dropbox.

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Scott Lowe

I think a fair number of folks may not be aware that the Nginx ingress controller for Kubernetes—both the community version and the Nginx-maintained open source version—do suffer from timeouts and errors resulting from changes in the back-end application’s list of endpoints (think pods being added or removed).

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Why IT leaders are putting more business spin on security spend

CIO Business Intelligence

But despite those expenditures, there have already been at least 13 major data breaches, including at Apple, Meta and Twitter. To better focus security spend, some chief information security officers (CISOs) are shifting their risk assessments from IT systems to the data, applications, and processes that keep the business going. “If

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