If you’re a consumer-facing business, Black Friday and Cyber Monday are the D-Day for IT operations. Low-level estimates indicate that upwards of 20% of all revenues for companies can occur within these two days. The stakes are even higher if you’re a payment processor as you aggregate the purchases across all consumer businesses. This means …
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A vulnerability in Xen could allow a local attacker on a guest system to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on the targeted host system. The vulnerability exists because the physical-to-machine (P2M) lock remains unavailable in certain error conditions related to P2M page removals. An attacker on a guest system could exploit this vulnerability …
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A vulnerability in Xen could allow a local attacker on a guest system to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on the targeted host system. The vulnerability exists because the affected software improperly handles certain Hardware Lock Elision (HLE) transactions when using instructions for the XACQUIRE prefix and running on an Intel x86 platform. …
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A vulnerability in PowerDNS Recursor and Authoritative Server could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on a targeted system. The vulnerability exists because the affected software improperly releases memory when parsing DNS Zone records. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by inserting a malicious DNS Zone record in …
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This is a guest post by Ben Ross. Ben is a Berkeley PhD, serial entrepreneur, and Founder and CTO and POWr.io, where he spends his days helping small businesses grow online. I like my code the same way I like my team of POWr Rangers… DRY. And no, I don’t mean dull and unexciting! (If …
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Superfast 5G mobile connectivity may not be able to reach inside buildings. Could light help? Source:: BBC News – Technology
Some users are adventurous, and seek to be the first to use new Windows 10 features via Microsoft’s Windows Insider program. Others aren’t, and just want a stable system to use on day-to-day basis. If you’re one of the latter, don’t go clicking Windows Update’s “Check for updates” button willy-nilly, or you may unwittingly join …
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Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) region. Source:: Amazon AWS
Amazon Redshift is now available in the EU (Stockholm) AWS Region. Source:: Amazon AWS
Is it fair to judge an organization’s information security posture simply by looking at its Internet-facing assets for weaknesses commonly sought after and exploited by attackers, such as outdated software or accidentally exposed data and devices? Fair or not, a number of nascent efforts are using just such an approach to derive security scores for …
Join The Full Nerd gang as they talk about the latest PC hardware topics. In today’s show we talk about Intel’s big CPU plans for 2019 and beyond, rumors of Nvidia RTX in laptops, and Corsair’s wild and fake RGB RAM. As always we will be answering your live questions so speak up in the …
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You can now set a lifecycle policy to delete objects from AWS Elemental MediaStore containers after a minimum of one day. This lets you automatically delete the video segments that make up your live streams after a period of time that you define, helping optimize your storage footprint and minimize cost. Source:: Amazon AWS
The woman says if companies were able to spot she had been pregnant, they should also have realised she was bereaved. Source:: BBC News – Technology
A robot has featured on Russian TV but turns out to be a man in a suit. Source:: BBC News – Technology
Starting today, you can use AWS Batch with workloads running on C5n instance types. Source:: Amazon AWS
A government-backed scheme for supplying medicine brings accusations of a “high-tech vanity project”. Source:: BBC News – Technology
AWS Storage Gateway released various feature enhancements to File Gateway, including increased performance, the option to selectively refresh portions of the gateway’s cache, and the ability configure DNS and NTP settings. Source:: Amazon AWS
What is a digital certificate and why do they expire? Source:: BBC News – Technology
Internet of Business’s comprehensive guide to where Industry 4.0 will lead manufacturers in the year ahead. Most manufacturers believe they are leading their markets in Industry 4.0 technologies, despite evidence to the contrary. There is a huge gap between the many companies that are exploring digital manufacturing strategies – via technologies such as automation, robotics, …
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Today’s a great day to level-up your PC loadout with one of the most popular gaming mice out there. The widely beloved Razer DeathAdder Elite is on sale for $40 at Amazon today, which matches its all-time low. The mouse carries a $70 suggested price and usually sells for about $55 on the street. Unlike …
