When it comes to privacy, using Google search is not the best of ideas. When you use their search engine, Google is recording your IP address, search terms, user agent, and often a unique identifier, which is stored in cookies. Here are a few Google search alternatives DuckDuckGo is a US-based search engine that was […]
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Are you ready for the latest in security patch updates? I’m not, but it’s that time again. Ref: https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=windows+security+update+2018 Microsoft today released security patch updates for more than 50 vulnerabilities, affecting Windows, Internet Explorer, Edge, MS Office, MS Office Exchange Server, ChakraCore, and Adobe Flash Player—11 of which are rated critical and 39 as […]
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Microsoft is reportedly acquiring #GitHub
#Microsoft is reportedly acquiring #GitHub – and we are now expecting the announcement sometime this week. New reports out of Redmond this weekend have Microsoft set to purchase the popular coding site GitHub. Bloomberg is citing “people familiar with the matter,” stating that the deal could be announced as early as tomorrow. The new story […]
Last year, the US government made moves to ban the use of Kaspersky security software in federal agencies, claiming the company’s ties to the Russian government represented a security risk. In September, the Department of Homeland Security issued an order that required federal departments and agencies to remove the company’s software from their systems. Then, […]
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VMware vCenter 6.7a and other released
VMware has released vCenter 6.7a, vSphere Replication 8.1.0.2, vSphere Integrated Containers 1.4, and PowerCLI 10.1. Download link
vCenter Single Sign by default requires the user to specify the domain during authentication with vCenter. Example: JERMSMIT\admin or admin@JERMSMIT.LAB. You can eliminate the need to insert the domain in the username by following the following steps. Log in to the vSphere Web Client as administrator@vsphere.local or as another user with vCenter Single Sign-On administrator […]