CleanMyMac X: Performance and Security Software for Macbook

We use Internet-enabled devices in every aspect of our lives today—to find information, shop, bank, do homework, play games, and keep in touch with friends and family. As a result, our devices contain much personal information about us. Also, any great device will get a little clunky and slow ove...

Holiday Readiness, Part Four: What You Should Be Thinking About One Month Out — Monitoring and Alerting

November is here. Now it’s crunch time. Hopefully, implementing the solutions in parts one through three of this series has kept you busy over the last few months. In those articles, we covered security, flash crowd management, disaster recovery, and performance optimization checklists. If you ar...

kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

4.18.0-305.12.14.OL8 - Update Oracle Linux certificates Kevin Lyons - Disable signing for aarch64 Ilya Okomin - Oracle Linux RHCK Module Signing Key was added to the kernel trusted keys list olkmodsigningkey.pem Orabug: 29539237 - Update x509.genkey Orabug: 24817676 - Conflict with shim-ia32 and...

OPENSUSE-SU-2021:1052-1 Security update for fossil

This update for fossil fixes the following issues: fossil 2.16: Add the fossil patch command Improve the fossil ui command to work on check-out directories and remote machines web UI improvements Add fossil bisect run command for improved automation of bisects Improve fossil merge handling of...

OPENSUSE-SU-2021:1050-1 Security update for fossil

This update for fossil fixes the following issues: fossil 2.16: Add the fossil patch command Improve the fossil ui command to work on check-out directories and remote machines web UI improvements Add fossil bisect run command for improved automation of bisects Improve fossil merge handling of...

Security update for fossil (moderate)

openSUSE Security Update: Security update for fossil Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:1050-1 Rating: moderate References: 1187988 Affected Products: openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP3 An update that contains security fixes can now be installed. Description: This update for fossil fixes the following...

OPENSUSE-SU-2021:0787-1 Security update for cacti, cacti-spine

This update for cacti, cacti-spine fixes the following issues: cacti-spine was updated to 1.2.17: Avoid triggering DDos detection in firewalls on large systems Use mysql reconnect option properly Fix possible creashes in various operations Fix remote data collectors pushing too much data to main...

Emerging Edge Computing Use Cases

The first rule of edge compute thought leadership is: don't overuse the term edge. Over the course of my blog series on the topic, I have defined the edge, explained edge computing, and discussed the economics of edge computing. There have also been a few articles in which I've discussed how...

Optimizing for Performance, One Hire at a Time: Part 1

It's a lot of fun to imagine and design the best team. As managers, it's rare that we get to build a team from the ground up and all at once...

How the Edge Improves Microservices

Microservice architecture has transformed the way we develop and operate our applications. Microservices aren't a technology or a programming language. Instead, they create a structure for designing and building applications based on the idea that the individual functions of a website should...

Optimize Video Streaming Performance to Reduce Viewer Churn

Why Improve Viewer Experience? Why Now? As online video viewership continues its march to digital mediums and platforms, viewer expectation around the quality of experience is also maturing. Increased video streaming choices and the low cost of switching providers are leading viewers to churn if...

Metrics That Matter: Continuous Performance Optimization

To attract and retain customers, you must offer an exceptional digital experience. In an increasingly competitive business climate, organizations are fighting to maintain loyalty and keep users engaged online. The cost of switching is low, consumers are transient, and user expectations for how...

Metrics That Matter: Continuous Performance Optimization

To attract and retain customers, you must offer an exceptional digital experience. In an increasingly competitive business climate, organizations are fighting to maintain loyalty and keep users engaged online. The cost of switching is low, consumers are transient, and user expectations for how...

Cleaner One Pro Speeds Up Your Mac: Part 1

The Mac has always been pretty easy to use, but even the most ardent Mac supporters know there comes a time when their Mac is no longer new and they notice slowdowns in its performance, particularly after intensive use. They’d like a handy one-stop tool to help them optimize memory and CPU...

Updates to Snort setup guides

Our documentation on Snort 3 running on CentOS and the Snort Rules Writing guide to Snort 3. Thanks to community member Yaser for providing the updates. The Snort 3 guide now has expanded information on logging options — such as syslog and JSON. There is also a new performance optimization sectio...

Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for kernel (EulerOS-SA-2018-1153)

The remote host is missing an update for the Huawei EulerOS SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Taking Reputation to Scale: The Delicate Balance of Latency, Scale, and Cost (Part 1)

When it comes to serving reputation, even a millisecond of latency could create havoc, resulting in the unwanted spread of malware and causing costly consequences that no security company or customer wants. And that’s why we, as engineers here at Carbon Black, are constantly working towards...

Akamai Outlook: Optimizing Edge Delivery Performance and Monitoring

Written by: Ritesh Kalyanshetty and Sandeep Singh Pervasiveness of CDNs within the expanding Media and Entertainment Industry Media and entertainment companies, including content owners and over-the-top OTT service providers are living in an era symbolized by a dramatic increase in content...

Gobuster v3.0 - Directory/File, DNS And VHost Busting Tool Written In Go

Gobuster is a tool used to brute-force: URIs directories and files in web sites. DNS subdomains with wildcard support. Virtual Host names on target web servers. Oh dear God.. WHY!? Because I wanted: 1. ... something that didn't have a fat Java GUI console FTW. 2. ... to build something that just...

Fast DNS: Zone Apex Mapping & DNSSEC

Introduction Along with its DDoS resilience and impressive global footprint, Fast DNS affords zone administrators additional technical flexibility and implementation options. One example is Zone Apex Mapping ZAM -- a feature that enables apex domains to be mapped directly to an Akamai edge IP. Th...