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Advantages of Virtual Textbooks over Print Textbooks

Kitaboo

The emergence of digital content and its prevalence during the pandemic has given rise to virtual textbooks. This blog post explains how virtual textbooks are different and even better than printed textbooks in many ways. How Can Publishers Benefit From Virtual Textbooks? Virtual Textbooks Are Easier to Update.

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Technology Short Take 176

Scott Lowe

The vulnerability affects virtually all Linux distributions and allows attackers to bypass the secure boot protections and insert a low-level bootkit. This would be why I hate it when companies force me to use SMS for two-factor authentication—at least let me use a one-time passcode or something.

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DRM Protection: The Key to Securing Your eBooks

Kitaboo

Thus, DRM can be understood as a virtual lock enabling access only to those who have acquired it legally. Mechanisms of DRM Protection DRM ensures that eBook files and other digital content are properly encrypted during storage and dissemination. It also monitors the number of devices on which the content can be accessed.

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Your phone is the key to your digital life. Make sure you know what to do if you lose it.

Vox

Access to just about everything I wasn’t already logged into on my computer was dependent on access to my phone, with my mobile-device-only password manager and multifactor authentication apps and text messages. Didn’t I delete my backups to free up storage space? Google Authenticator finally made this option available in April.

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Don’t fall behind when it comes to migrating to the cloud

CTOvision

Cloud computing and cloud storage at one time was once viewed as a risky proposition for businesses; why trust an unknown virtual platform to handle business needs when everything could be safely handled onsite? Security is also a strong benefit of cloud storage. Bob Gourley. Why Cloud, Why Now. Performance is another benefit.

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Health Orgs Are Target of Daixin Team Ransomware

SecureWorld News

Virtual private networks (VPN) servers are the gateway for Daixin actors, who have exploited unpatched vulnerabilities in organizations' VPN servers, or, in one case, previously compromised credentials were used to access a legacy VPN server without multifactor authentication (MFA) enabled.

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Technology Short Take 155

Scott Lowe

Along those lines, one of their latest articles discusses how to achieve identity-based mutual authentication leveraging eBPF. network virtualization). Is the relationship between network virtualization and service mesh closer than some folks might wish to admit? Virtualization. Servers/Hardware.