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23 Aug
Microsoft Virtualization Certifications With all the buzz currently in the industry about 'cloud' technology it's worth keeping up to speed with industry certifications and, especially, ones which provide the core understanding for cloud based solutions. Microsoft have many varied certification routes and I will not go in to detail on these here (their learning portal is worth a visit however) but one route of key interest for cloudy types is Windows Server 2008 R2 Virtualization. A bit of... -
18 Aug
Internet Explorer 9 coming to a computer near you Microsoft and its partner developers are gearing up for the release of the latest in their incarnation of web browser, Internet Explorer. This release, in the 15th year since IE 1, will be the 9th instalment of the much used (51% market share) browser. Microsoft openly announced commitments to the audience at their PDC09 (professional developer conference) including: Internet Explorer 9 would help enable the same markup to work across browsers Internet Explorer 9 would... -
18 Aug
Top Tips to Avoid Phishing Attacks Hot on the heels of our recent post about SSL certificates, I have read with interest another security story about the dangers of phishing. In case you have not come across it before, phishing is defined as "the criminally fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication". A good example would be: An email arrives in your... -
16 Aug
The Potency of SQL Injection - A Technical Perspective Most web developers know that they should sanitize their web input. However recent figures from the UK Security Breach Investigations Report 2010 indicate that 40 per cent of all website attacks are due to SQL injections. SQL injection attacks allow perpetrators to leak data, usually by making a web application perform a query it wasn't intended to do. However, what most fail to realize is under the right conditions SQL injection attacks can be much... -
16 Aug
Role Based Access Controls in Enterprise Linux 6 I've been really excited about the potential of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL6/CentOS6) and the beta has not let me down. Most of the more prominent features are laid out at the Redhat website but one of the things it neglects to mention is how much more access control it comes with. Role Based Access Controls (RBAC) offer a system or security administrator a means to define a role of some sort. In our... -
13 Aug
Dell Rebounds First Following Recession Research firm TheInfoPro has revealed that hardware giant Dell is going from strength to strength after server spending dropped globally during the economic crisis. The report, released earlier this week, surveyed 252 decision makers from Fortune 1000 companies and considered the financial results of top hardware suppliers. Reporting a 61 per cent increase in server revenue for the first fiscal quarter of the year, the survey reveals that Dell is the quickest server provider to...
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