GitHub Engineering starts our day with their post about mitigating a SYN flood. Overall, it is an interesting post and a cool look at how some companies deal with this type of attack. The Amazon AWS blog talks about scaling vulnerability testing with Amazon Inspector. Inspector is a new tool, so any details on how… Read More Geek Reading July 14, 2016 #1148
Well, it is Tuesday and that seems to be security day. First, Reuters reports on SWIFT saying a second bank is hit by a malware attack. The Cisco Talos blog talks about multiple vulnerabilities in the 7-Zip application. 18F gives us some interesting information on how they deal with information security and third party applications.… Read More Geek Reading May 17, 2016 #1107
Leading our day is a report from VentureBeat about Twilio adding Facebook Messenger as a supported platform. This is interesting because Twilio has been focused on SMS/MMS for a long time and adding Messenger could change the pricing and overall dynamics of the service. WordPress released v4.5 “Coleman” of their CMS. As always, it is… Read More Geek Reading April 14, 2016 #1084
Microsoft leads the day again with one of its last announcements from last week. SQL Server Developer Edition is now free. This could help get SQL Server into some more companies that are looking to support it but the cost was somewhat prohibitive. On KD Nuggets we get a list of 10 essential books for… Read More Geek Reading April 4, 2016 #1076
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