How to make your USB drive faster and free

Why is your USB drive so slow? If your drive is formatted in FAT32 or exFAT (the latter of which can handle larger capacity drives), you have your answer.USB drive vendors tend to format their drives at the factory with FAT32/exFAT because every device that can read USB mass storage can read and write to these well-known formats. That includes, but is not limited to: Windows PCs, cell phones, car radios, Linux, and OS X/iOS devices. If you want maximum read/write compatibility, format with exFAT.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

7 Reasons You Need 802.11ac

What’s going on with IT hiring?

CompTIA, an industry group, said about 96,000 IT jobs were lost last month across all industries, not just the technology sector. That figure includes the impact of the approximately 37,000 telecommunications jobs sidelined by the Verizon strike, which was settled this month. But it was a rough month, by some estimates.Analysts have been generally cautious this year about IT hiring trends. Although the unemployment rate for IT professionals is about half the national average of 4.7%, said CompTIA, some analysts use terms ranging from "modest" to "pre-recession" to describe IT hiring.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

How to survive in the CISO hot-seat

The CISO is a precarious job. Research studies indicate that CISOs typically survive just 18 months to two years in a job which is increasingly complex and multi-skilled.After all, information security is no longer solely about managing firewalls and patch management, but rather a varied role encompassing business and technical skills. Add into that continual issues around funding, reporting lines, governance and a lack of support from the board and you can see why the role is not to be taken lightly.Indeed, Deloitte says that the CISO today must have four ‘faces’; the strategist, the adviser, the guardian (protecting business assets by understanding the threat landscape and maintaining security programs) and the technologist.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

How to configure your Chromebook for ultimate security

A Chromebook is already an ultra-secure computer straight out of the box. Since it doesn’t run a traditional operating system and takes advantage of various Google-powered security measures, Chrome OS is well-guarded against all the miscreants lurking out there on the Web.But you can always do more, particularly if you want to minimize traces of your Internet wanderings, or prevent your every online action from contributing to an advertising profile.You may share a Chromebook with others or desire a setup that’s impervious to the latest security threats. Perhaps it’s time for a little de-Googling in your life, as the Mountain View giant can collect a lot of information about you.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

SolarWinds Attacks the Hybrid IT Market

SolarWinds' NPM 12 might give the company a leg up on other NPM vendors.

Best Linux Command-Line Tools For Network Engineers

Invasion of the tabtops: The new hybrid tablets reviewed

Tablets were the big thing a few years ago, purportedly soon to displace PCs. It didn't happen, and tablet sales have been dropping for several years. Except for one kind of tablet: the kind with a detachable keyboard, epitomized by Microsoft's Surface Pro. They're the rising star, both for IT organizations and for computer makers. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)

Tech’s biggest Fortune 500 companies

Top techie companiesFortune is out with its latest list of the Fortune 500 for 2016 and tech companies appear frequently throughout the rankings. While the top tech company on the list likely isn’t a surprise, it is interesting to note that only two tech company broke the Top 10 largest publicly-traded companies based on full-year revenue last year.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Response: Why On-Premises Software Will Die Sooner

This is the most compelling article I’ve ever read about why on-premises applications/software are  less competitive. I am reasonably certain that private cloud infrastructure can be as efficient as public cloud and cheaper over some period. What I’m coming to understand is that many of types of cloud-based applications may be much more efficent than […]

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Is BGP Really that Complex?

Anyone following the popular networking blogs and podcasts is probably familiar with the claim that BGP is way too complex to be used in whatever environment. On the other hand, more and more smart people use it when building their data center or WAN infrastructure. There’s something wrong with this picture.

Slack could host your next conference call

Get ready to start fielding voice calls in Slack. The company announced Tuesday that all users of its popular chat app will be able to ring their teammates with a couple of clicks. People who access Slack on a Mac or Windows PC using either Google Chrome or the communication service's own app will see a phone icon in the header. Users can click that button and start a voice-only call without making other participants open up a second app.  Slack This phone glyph in the header of a Slack window lets users place a call to one of their teammates.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Fortinet Weaves AccelOps Into Its Security Fabric

The deal ties Fortinet into the SIEM crowd.

Forensic Lab Game Zero – Level 1 Results

The goal of the post is to provide solutions for the first level of the game for "hackers" created by forensic lab of CESNET association. With this game CESNET introduces a work of forensic analysts and test your knowledge of Linux OS. They are several assignments and practical tasks included inside Debian image which is available for download here.  The question / answer sheet is located inside the home directory of user kassad.

Picture 1 - Answer Sheet

1. In the Linux image, which username is logged in automatically on boot?

Check the desktop environment.

kassad@debian1989:~$ echo $DESKOP_SESSION
gnome-fallback

Check if automated login is enabled for Gnome desktop.

kassad@debian1989:~$ grep 'AutomaticLogin' /etc/gdm3/daemon.conf
AutomaticLoginEnable = true
AutomaticLogin = kassad

The automated login is enabled for the user kassad.  Now we need to compute the sha1 hash for the result.

kassad@debian1989:~$ echo -n 'kassad' | sha1sum
fb1216c760d6c0996991108886d1797d8bd4ca27

2. On the provided Linux image, what is the “ls” command aliased to for user from question 1 ?

kassad@debian1989:~$ type ls
ls is aliased to `ls --color=auto'

We can get the result also by checking the content of the file /home/kassad/.bashrc.

kassad@debian1989:~$ grep 'alias ls' /home/kassad/.bashrc
alias ls='ls --color=auto'

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Salesforce targets ‘citizen developers’ with new tools and training

If there's an overriding trend in the world of enterprise software lately, it's democratization, as tools previously reserved for experts are put in the hands of average users. On Tuesday, Salesforce.com climbed on board with new software, training and support services that aim to help more users -- not just professional developers -- build applications for the Salesforce platform.There aren't enough trained developers to create apps for the business world, the company says, so it wants to help users in all parts of the organization make their own. More than 2.8 million developers have already built some 5.5 million apps based on the company's customer relationship management software, it says, and at its TrailheaDX developer event in San Francisco, it made several announcements to expand that further.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

South African Lengau System Leaps Towards Petaflops

There are plenty of people in industry, academia, and government that believe there is a direct correlation between the investment in supercomputing technologies and the healthy and vibrancy of the regional or national economy. So getting a big bump up in performance, as South Africa’s Center for High Performance Computing has just done this week, is a big deal.

Up until now, CHPC has had fairly modest sized systems, but thanks to Moore’s Law advancements that have radically brought down the cost of compute and a more aggressive plan to invest in HPC within South Africa, CHPC is breaking into …

South African Lengau System Leaps Towards Petaflops was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Verizon Data Center Sale Still Up in the Air

Telco will decide in next three months whether or not to move ahead.

Docker and HPE: Accelerating modern app architectures in enterprise datacenters

Docker has evolved tremendously over the last 3 years to empower developers and IT operations teams to maintain greater control over their own environments without sacrificing agility. From an ops tool used by the original dotCloud team, to Docker’s commercially supported Containers-as-a-Service (CaaS) platform, Docker Datacenter (DDC), Docker has been at the forefront of this evolution.

Today we are excited to announce the next evolution in the Docker story providing enterprises with infrastructure optimized for the Docker platform with the leading provider of cloud infrastructure – Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). Together, Docker and HPE will deliver integrated and fully supported Docker ready HPE x86 servers, bundled with Docker’s commercially supported Engine (CS Engine) right out of the box.

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Hewlett Packard bundles hardware/software to create an all-in-one cloud package

It’s been a tumultuous past year for Hewlett Packard Enterprise but this week the company is unveiling a series of new offerings intended to solidify its standing in the private and hybrid cloud computing market.Key themes for HPE’s new cloud products are bundling software to make it more easily consumable, packaging that software with optional hardware to create an all-in-one cloud and being able to manage not only new, cloud-native workloads and technologies – such as application containers – but legacy and traditional workloads too. Bill Hilf, SVP and GM of Helion Cloud at HPETo read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

20% off Oral-B Pro 7000 Electronic Bluetooth Connected Toothbrush – Deal Alert

If you'd like to step up your brushing game, this 20% off deal might be for you. The Oral-B Pro 7000 is a Bluetooth connected electric rechargeable toothbrush. Its best-in-class 3D cleaning technology oscillates, rotates and pulsates to remove up to 100% more plaque than a regular toothbrush, and has 6 different modes (ranging from "daily clean" to "tongue cleaning"). But it doesn't stop there. Bluetooth communication allows the brush to connect with your smartphone to give you real-time feedback on your brushing habits. It communicates as it cleans, so you know you're doing it right every time. An on-board sensor notifies you if you are brushing too hard to prevent harmful over-brushing, and a timer helps you hit the doctor-recommended goal of 2 minutes. The Pro 7000 averages 4.5 out of 5 stars from over 1,500 customers on Amazon (70% rate it a full 5 -- read reviews). The regular list price is $149.99, but is currently discounted to just $119.97.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here