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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 13:50:04 +0000
While some major distributed-denial-of-service attacks have been thwarted this month, the threat remains as critical as ever.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Kathleen Batcheller| Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 19:40:14 +0000
No factor is more critical to a hotel’s reputation and market position than its ability to deliver a unique and satisfying guest experience. And—you only get one chance to make… Read more »
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Read MoreCredit to Author: Anthony DeSpirito| Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 15:48:17 +0000
If you walk around the white space in a typical data center, where all the IT gear lives, you’ll more than likely see very few people. In many edge data… Read more »
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Read MoreCredit to Author: Keith Chambers| Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 06:57:26 +0000
It’s a nightmare scenario for any F&B manufacturer – realizing that a product has been contaminated or is not safe for consumption and must be recalled. When a product is… Read more »
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 19:36:28 +0000
Adobe and Microsoft each pushed critical security updates to their products today. Adobe’s got a new version of Flash Player available, and Microsoft released 14 updates covering more than 75 vulnerabilities, two of which were publicly disclosed prior to today’s patch release. The Microsoft updates affect all supported Windows operating systems, as well as all supported versions of Internet Explorer/Edge, Office, Sharepoint and Exchange Server. All of the critical vulnerabilities from Microsoft are in browsers and browser-related technologies, according to a post from security firm Qualys.
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Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 05:05:00 -0700
The world of grey IT means both enterprise and consumer users frequently use popular social networking service Facebook on their devices. It makes sense, then, to stay safe while using it.
First things first: Always use a complex passcode with your account and do make sure to set up two-factor authentication.
Now that you’ve done that, you’ll find Facebook’s own privacy settings live inside Privacy Shortcuts in the iOS app. Get to these by tapping the three-line icon at bottom right of the Facebook app and scrolling down to Privacy Shortcuts. The first thing you should do is run Privacy check-up (at the top of the page). Facebook will guide you through your existing settings, change them for maximum privacy, and delete any Facebook apps you’ve forgotten about or no longer use.
Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 03:00:00 -0700
Sysadmin pilot fish is approached by the IT director, who tells fish to create an account for the director that has the same capabilities as the lead programmer’s account.
“Seems he had some kind of beef with the lead programmer,” sighs fish. “But I created the account, set the privileges and gave him the user name and password.
“Three months later, he came into my office accusing me of not complying with his directive.
“I told him that I had indeed complied with his instructions, including showing him that the login capability worked as advertised.
“He told me he couldn’t perform a certain operation when he logged in. I explained that neither could the lead programmer. Only system administrators could.
Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 15:14:00 -0700
Microsoft has given us two messed-up patching months back to back, with January leaving blue screens and pandemonium in its wake, and February hitting the latest version of Windows 10 particularly hard. For those of you with some experience in the patching game, it’s more of the same-old same-old.