Hearing everyone’s opinion of the cost-efficiency and value of multicloud deployments is fun. Most people don’t get it right—more from misperceptions and groupthink than anything else. I’m sorry to be the guy who comes along and crushes these myths, but somebody must do it. Myth 1: Multicloud means no lock-in. I understand this assumption. We […]
Twitter’s ditching of free text-message authentication doesn’t mean that you should forgo using 2FA. Instead, switch to another – and, indeed, better – 2FA option. Starting today, Twitter is disabling SMS-based two-factor authentication (2FA) for all but paying users following a decision that, not unlike other recent moves by the social media giant, has been […]
PHP provides several functions and classes for working with dates and times. In this article, we’ll look at the different ways to get the current date and time in PHP and discuss some additional considerations when working with time in PHP. Using the date Function The date() function is a simple and easy-to-use function for […]
Mar 09, 2023Ravie LakshmananThreat Intelligence / Malware Security vulnerabilities in remote desktop programs such as Sunlogin and AweSun are being exploited by threat actors to deploy the PlugX malware. AhnLab Security Emergency Response Center (ASEC), in a new analysis, said it marks the continued abuse of the flaws to deliver a variety of payloads on […]
Technology stack selection is a vital part of the product development process, be it a web or mobile app, that decides the fate of the application. The foundational building block of the project is hard and expensive to change in the future. Experienced developers consider tech stack selection as an essential part of the development […]
A user’s clipboard is a “catch all” between the operating system and the apps employed on it. When you use a web browser, you can highlight text or right-click an image and select “Copy Image”. That made me think about how developers can detect what is in the clipboard. You can retrieve the contents of […]
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has agreed to buy cloud security services provider Axis Security, its third acquistion since January, to deliver a unified secure access service edge (SASE) offering. The acquisition is aimed at incorporating the Axis security service edge (SSE) platform into HPE’s edge-to-cloud network security capabilities with to deliver integrated networking and security solutions […]
Welcome to ISSUE #167 of The Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams. This week: Are clouds moving in-house? Can you quit to avoid a PIP? What’s the best way to change your mindset to include accessibility? From the blog Developer with ADHD? You’re […]
A new plug-in, created by Microsoft and MITRE, integrates various open-source software tools to aid cybersecurity professionals in bolstering their defenses against attacks on machine learning (ML) systems. The Arsenal tool implements tactics and techniques defined in the MITRE ATLAS framework and has been collaboratively built off of Microsoft’s Counterfit as an automated adversarial attack […]
Despite increased awareness among organizations about cybersecurity, ransomware attacks are going up. Cyber extortionists are targeting organizations and governments with impunity, holding their data hostage and demanding ransom in the range of millions of dollars. Such is the severity that global ransomware damages are expected to cross $30 billion by 2023. And as per the […]