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NSA's Windows 10 Advisory - Is Your OS Really Secure?

New year, same old problems for Windows 10. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Earlier this month the United State’s National Security Agency (NSA) announced that they discovered a major vulnerability in Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 that could have had dire consequences for businesses around the world. The vulnerability places Windows endpoints at risk to a broad range of exploitation vectors NSA official cybersecurity advisory

7 Online Proofing Tools to Make Life of a Designer Easier

When working on web and graphic designs there can be so much back and forth in emails and messages. There will be lots of email threads to keep up with. The review and approval process taking several turns. So, what do you do? Ask any designer about the pain they go through when it comes to the approval process. Luckily, the technology clearly will never disappoint any of us.

Improve Your Logging Efforts by Leveraging Your Search History

When talking about log management, search history is overlooked more often than not. Past searches can be used as part of log analysis and forensic analysis, but the main issue with this data is the speed of search which gets compromised as data volume gets greater. We will discuss some ways to get the best out of your saved searches and to speed up the search process.

9 essential UEM capabilities that empower your IT administration

Unified endpoint management (UEM) is an IT best practice and strategy for securing and controlling desktop computers, laptops, smartphones, and tablets in a connected, secure manner from a single console. It’s increasingly important for enterprises today because of the prevalence of corporate-owned, personally-enabled (COPE) devices, and bring your own devices (BYOD) policies.

Unpatched zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer exploited in the wild

Barely a week after Patch Tuesday, internet security company Qihoo 360 has discovered yet another vulnerability in Internet Explorer (IE), this time due to a remote code execution vulnerability in the jscript.dll scripting engine. The vulnerability, identified as CVE-2020-0674, is considered Critical for IE 11, and Moderate for IE 9 and IE 10.

December 2019 Outage Report

December was a busy month with systems we don’t normally see experiencing server downtime. Our first story, in particular, is an excellent example of how complicated monitoring can get as infrastructure grows. We saw every level get hit, from the government to big-name players, with ransomware being one of the major thorns in our collective sides. But we also bring you the heartwarming tale of the little Minecraft Server that could.

A Rubyist's Introduction to Character Encoding, Unicode and UTF-8

Have you ever dealt with a unicode bug? Where plain text — the substance you work with all day — can no longer be trusted? It can be disorienting to say the least! This article will help prepare you so that the next time that happens you’ll be able to spend less time hyperventilating and more time troubleshooting.

Okta: Atlassian product suite most popular app of the year

Atlassian and Opsgenie are among the most popular apps in the Okta network this year, according to a new report from the security company. From the report: Okta’s Business @ Work 2020 Report takes an in-depth look at how organizations and people work, exploring industries and customers, and the applications and services they use to harness productivity.