The Internet of Things (IoT) is changing how the world works. Machine to machine (M2M) communication simply makes for faster, more timely, and transparent connections, thereby saving us a lot of time and money. In the hands of the right people, the IoT has great potential to improve quality of life.

The namespace support in 2.10 caused a regression with the registered global scope being evaluated for API permissions with filters. This release fixes the problem, next to a problem with Windows packages not fully starting up.

Empire is an open source post-exploitation framework that acts as a capable backdoor on infected systems. It provides a management platform for infected machines. Empire can deploy PowerShell and Python agents to infect both Windows and Linux systems.

Offsite meetings can be great for getting things done. Being out of the office can clear the cobwebs, break down barriers, and lead to real breakthroughs.

Federal agencies and DoD components are required to comply with several information security controls to protect sensitive government information and IT assets.

Source maps are awesome. Namely, because they are used to display your original JavaScript while debugging, which is a lot easier to look at than minified production code. In a sense, source maps are the decoder ring to your secret (minified) code. However, they can be tricky to get working properly.

With the increasing usage of Splunk within organizations, Splunk administrators are challenged to meet end-user SLAs and the performance needs of their growing user base amidst the growing volumes of data.

IT Ops and DevOps teams in every organization are capable of focusing on revenue-generating initiatives and projects. Unfortunately they’re held back by constant fire-fighting…which means they are reduced to supporting just the current state and existing/legacy applications and services.

For those of you who joined us at .conf18 in Orlando, our keynote gave you a sneak peek into the new innovations across the Splunk security portfolio. Today we’re excited to announce the exciting new updates we have for Splunk User Behavior Analytics (UBA) in our 4.2 release, now generally available.