New study surveying Microsoft vulnerabilities concludes that most can be mitigated by tightening up admin permissions ahead of the monthly patch cycle.
Database management systems (DBMSs) have simultaneously simplified and complicated the lives of many IT workers. Error codes passed from the database back to the application can take on more than 1000 values. What level of error checking should developers include in applications?
Of course everyone is diligent about making timely backups. There are many ways to backup your data; here is the motley collection of backup schemes and devices that I use.
ASP.NET Developers, do you have ASP.NET pages that are slow to respond to the user and/or timeout. Try this technique to move those processes to the background and provide feedback to the user.
ASP.NET Developers, do you have ASP.NET pages that are slow to respond to the user and/or timeout. Try this technique to move those processes to the background and provide feedback to the user.
Xerox's new $399 color laser printer is fast, attractive and versatile. But is it eclipsed by Xerox's latest discount on a slightly older step-up model?
<b>Linux Pro Magazine:</b> ""People with disabilities deserve to have control of their own technological destinies." With this statement, the Free Software Foundation (FSF) announces that it is turning its attention to accessibility."
<b>eSecurityPlanet:</b> "An audit by the Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General reveals that while the FBI and Justice Department have made "various efforts" to fight identity theft crimes in recent years, these initiatives have "faded as priorities" mainly because the agencies have failed to develop a coordinated plan to deal with what's become an epidemic of cybercrimes."
<b>Unity Linux:</b> "The developers at Unity Linux have been working hard on expanding our package repositories. At this point, there are well over 8600 packages for each of the i586 and x86_64 architectures."
Is your small business reputation on the line? Use this handy Web tool to find out. Plus, a how-to video resource and Google offers free social networking tools.
Is your small business reputation on the line? Use this handy Web tool to find out. Plus, a how-to video resource and Google offers free social networking tools.
Adobe Acrobat and Reader PDF applications are vulnerable to a new attack that relies on social engineering to trick users into clicking on something they shouldn't.
<b>Click:</b> "Anyhow, Dru is a tremendously gifted writer whose O'Reilly columns in the early 2000s and her subsequent book "The Best of FreeBSD Basics" has been a great help to me. Not so ironically, Dru along with fellow BSD writer Michael W. Lucas are two of the best out there at explaining Unix to the thick-of-head such as myself."
Study finds that 76 percent of C-level executives now say that securing their business-critical apps is the most important aspect of their data protection program.
<b>Linux Tutorial:</b> "The book is organized into 9 chapters, holding a total of 99 recipes in all. Each recipe introduces the task, tells how to prepare to perform the task, offers the specific steps, describes how the task is supposed to work, and lists any additional information related to the task."