Electron app vulnerability, WordPress sites infected by malware, Torvalds calls Intel's patch garbage, AMT flaw in Intel chips allows attacker to create a backdoor, and first malware for Mac OS in 2018.
Team members often need certain information to authenticate against servers. You don't want to save this secret data in plain text, but you don't want to retype it every time, either. How can you share these secrets?
Want to keep your teams connected even when they are disconnected? RetroShare, SparkleShare, and I2P are free tools that support chat, data sharing, and other collaboration services.
Sure you've heard about Amazon Web Services, but have you tried it? This article shows how to configure a web server and mirrored back-end database for a small-to-midsized business environment.
Set up network-attached storage and manage it from a web interface with Rockstor, the easy-to-install and free Linux distribution that uses the still new Btrfs filesystem.
Jira, Confluence, and GitLab are very popular DevOps tools and often form the basis for agile work flows. With the right Ansible playbooks, Ubuntu can be turned into an agile work center.
Application releases can take place several times a day. Terraform helps you roll out virtual machines automatically in your data center or in the cloud, and you adapt the manual only when it changes.
How can LibreOffice be used in a corporate environment and what difficulties have to be considered? In particular, you cannot underestimate acceptance by your employees.
Encrypting hard disk partitions during the installation of an operating system is standard procedure. When booting the computer, you then need to enter a matching passphrase to unlock the hard drive. We show you how to automate this process and link it to a policy.
In Windows Server 2016, software-defined storage lets you combine several volumes to create a central storage pool; then, you can use a combination of HDD, SSD, and NVMe SSD storage media to divide the pool into different volumes.
Microsoft continues to integrate Windows Server with the Azure cloud. With Cloud Witness and the RDS Connection Broker, you can operate distributed environments more reliably and efficiently, and SQL databases migrate sensibly into the cloud.
Huginn collects information and data from websites and processes and mails it to a user. Huginn also executes predefined actions automatically for certain events; however, setting up the small IFTTT alternative requires some work.
Offers for identity management as a service (IDaaS) are entering the market and promising simplicity. However, many lack functionality, adaptability, and in-depth integration with existing systems. We look at how IT managers should consider IDaaS in their strategy.
If you compile software on an expensive supercomputer, it's a good idea to select the languages and compilers with particular care. We report on the tried-and-proved tools used on SuperMUC, a supercomputer at the Leibniz Supercomputing Center in Germany.
Containers are finding their way into business-critical environments, which is reason enough to think about how to examine the deployed container images for weak points.
