Tag: IP Address

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Hasan Abo-Shally. This blog post was co-authored with Roy Levin, Senior Data Scientist With the reality of working from home, more people and devices are now accessing corporate data across home networks. This raises the risks of cyber-attacks and elevates the importance of proper data protection. One of the resources most targeted by attackers is data storage, which can hold critical business data and sensitive information. To help Azure customers better protect their storage environment, Azure Security Center provides Azure Defender for Storage, which alerts customers upon unusual and potentially harmful attempts to access or ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; CIS (Center for Internet Security) is a non-profit organization that aims to develop a best practice in relation to cyber security. The CIS benchmarks have been adopted by many organizations as the standard against which to measure their systems. You can download a copy of the CIS standards for free from CIS Security; if you do, you'll see the high number of benchmarks. For example, for CentOS 7 there are 186 separate tests for the basic server benchmark. If you were to go away and start writing Puppet code to apply all those ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Mahesh Nayak. At Microsoft, we see our customers going through rapid digital transformation to accelerate business growth and empower their employees. And the shift to the digital sphere means a phenomenal growth in internet traffic. The global pandemic has transformed the way we work and live, resulting in a further increase in digital adoption. It goes without saying that a growing number of our customers are adopting an internet-first approach. As you move more workloads and services to Azure, we remain fully committed to adding new services and more value to empower you with more ... Read More

Feed: AWS Architecture Blog. This post was cowritten with Daniel Loureiro, Lead Security Engineer at OLX Group Global Information Security. At OLX, infrastructure is constantly being scanned and targeted by advanced malicious botnets. These botnets either scrape the content of their websites to monetize it on other competing websites, threaten the availability of their service with DDoS attacks, or brute force login pages to compromise legitimate accounts. The last attack type is known as Account Takeover. With compromised accounts, malicious actors can conduct fraudulent activities like selling fake products on OLX marketplaces, which is a major business risk for a ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Samson Max; Major League Baseball (MLB) blackouts have been a niggling issue for years. Despite persistent complaints by MLB.tv subscribers, the MLB won’t stop the blackouts because they help fund teams in the league. Instead of complaining about the absurdities of the blackout restrictions, you can install the best VPN for MLB.tv on your device to avoid them altogether.   Key Takeaways: ExpressVPN is the best VPN for MLB.tv because of its blazing-fast speed and excellent performance, but NordVPN comes in a close second. Surfshark is the cheapest MLB.tv VPN, and it offers a rich suite of advanced features.PIA ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Robin Barber; How to Trace an IP Address in 2021: Sleuthing for the New Age Search The internet is large and busy, so if you want your traffic to end up at the right place, your device needs to know where to send it. Normally it will use an identifier, called an IP address, and you can use it to get lots of information, including where your data’s really going. In this article, we’ll show you how to trace an IP address, so you can follow your information to any specific location around the world. Key Takeaways: ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Farhad Jahangirov. Applications running on LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) stack are ubiquitous—WordPress alone represents 38% of all content management systems. Other popular CMS applications such as Drupal and Joomla also run on LAMP as well as Moodle, a widely used learning management system (LMS). Because of the popularity of these applications, public sector organisations such as educational institutions should protect their business continuity by implementing disaster recovery (DR) solutions: policies, tools, and procedures to help the recovery or continuation of technology infrastructure and systems following a disaster. Amazon Web Services (AWS) Professional ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Bernardo Caldas.  Now more than ever, customers are accelerating their move to Azure to increase efficiency, improve security, optimize costs, and to innovate. Customers like Molina Healthcare and Forever 21 are using Windows Server on Azure and are able to scale capacity during surges related to the COVID-19 pandemic or seasonal retail sales. Today, we are sharing more unique capabilities that continue to make Azure the best place to run Windows Server. Simplify and optimize IT management with Azure Automanage We often hear from customers that they are looking for ways to efficiently run business-critical ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Samson Max; The Android TV box has access to a wider variety of entertainment services than a regular TV. However, since it uses the internet to unlock these services, it’s vulnerable to the same cyber threats as your other Android devices. Because of this, you have to install the best VPN for Android TV box to enjoy your favorite shows securely. Finding a VPN for your Android TV box can be a challenge. You have to consider many factors, such as features, usability and price to find a virtual private network that best meets your needs. We ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. Previously I wrote about locating config files. The thing is – postgresql.conf is not the only place you can set your configuration in. In here, I'll describe all the places that can be used, why do we even have more than one place, and finally – how to find out where given value comes from. Obviously you can have config in postgresql.conf file. This file can include more files and directories. Look into your postgresql.conf and see if you have include_* params defined. For me, it looks like: #------------------------------------------------------------------------------ # CONFIG FILE INCLUDES #------------------------------------------------------------------------------   # These ... Read More