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What is Configuration Drift? Application owners must change their apps and underlying infrastructure over time to continuously enhance customer experience. These customers may be either inside or external to the company. The configuration of the apps and infrastructure changes as a result of those updates and changes. These modifications could be beneficial or degrade the systems’ hardened condition. Configuration drift is the term for this. How Configuration Drift Works The potential for configuration drift increases with the complexity of software production and delivery systems....

It has been more than 50 years since the patent grant of barcodes in favor of Norman Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver. Still, barcodes are indispensable when you need an easy and efficient way to read concise data written on consumer products or business assets. In fact, technology businesses are developing new versions of it by referencing the basic ones. These days, businesses automate barcode making, on-demand printing, and decoding using robust apps like Excel and Sheets....

Cloud Computing Learning cloud computing and not sure what do abbreviations stand for? Blogging/SEO Find out acronyms used in blogging or search engine optimization. AI Not sure what does new buzz terms used in Artificial Intelligence? Don’t worry the following will help you. You may also be interested in learning AI for better career growth. Database Explore abbreviations used in a database. Development As a developer, you will come across many short words, and the following are an incomplete list....

When you get started with Cloud Computing, there are many things to learn. In this article, I will talk about some of the popular cloud service models that are widely used and are a must-know for aspiring cloud architects. Three cloud service models PaaS, SaaS, and IaaS are the most important among all, so I will start with them. PaaS PaaS stands for Platform as a Service. Here, your cloud provider gives you the complete platform to use....

Why Infrastructure as Code? Traditionally, if we look back when you wanted a server, you would raise a ticket, and someone from the ops team would create a VM instance or order a physical server. This could be using scripts, point and click, or even manual install. And then, with every request, there would be more VMs, for DNS, mail, databases, and so on. And then, there were continuous updates to the Operating systems, web servers, JVMs, and everything else....

You might only have a handful of playbooks as a beginner sysadmin. As your automation skills improve and you become more familiar with Ansible, you will learn all the best practices. As you increase your playbooks, you will also realize how important Ansible Galaxy is. What is Ansible Galaxy? Ansible Galaxy is a web-based open-source online repository for Ansible content (mainly roles and collections). It is almost as if you have created something new and want to share it with others....

AWS LightSail and AWS EC2 are similar services that provide you with virtual cloud servers. Although the function of these services sounds pretty much the same, both the services are designed for different use cases. AWS EC2 AWS EC2 is a core cloud service offered by AWS that allows us to provision virtual cloud servers. The instances provisioned from EC2 are like a blank slate. These servers are highly customizable and can be configured and used in any way the user wants....

The Internet has always been a hotspot for innovative ways to scam people. It wasn’t long ago when Nigerian lottery emails scammed thousands of people across the globe. Phishing and identity theft has also been there for a while on the Internet. If you find these scams advanced, wait till you hear about the online scams prevalent in recent times. Why have online scams grown recently? The pandemic behaved like a catalyst in pushing a colossal population into the online realm....

However, if it is not used properly, it can easily cause a compliance catastrophe. That’s why we need RBAC tools to audit and locate risky permissions in Kubernetes. In this article, we will discuss what Kubernetes RBAC is, why it’s important to audit risky permissions, and discover the tools that can help us best in auditing risky permissions! What is RBAC? Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) is a security mechanism in which each access authorization is based on roles that are assigned to a user....

Just look at the websites like Reviewsub or Amzon Review; they let anyone buy fake reviews cheaply or get it free in exchange for a fake review of their own. Even if these websites are closed down, no one stops sellers and fake reviewers from making agreements privately or over social media, like this Facebook group. As fake reviewing is actually a side job for these reviewers, they review dozens of products every month and usually don’t have a personal interest in those products....

This is one of the most important metrics in search engine optimization (SEO). It essentially keeps coming up in almost anything you do—creating a new website or launching a PPC ad campaign or any other marketing campaign that has to do with Google Ads. Also, it’s a great way to assess user needs and interest in certain topics, services, and products—and use thin info to inform your marketing or even product strategy....

API (Application Programming Interface) is the foundation of modern architecture. They allow applications to be modularized and decoupled. This allows you to create applications quickly and makes it easy to maintain them. Therefore, it is a good idea to learn FastAPI if you plan to use Python to develop web applications. This article will teach you all about FastAPI basics. What is FastAPI? FastAPI is a Python-based web framework. It has attracted a lot of attention in recent years....

I have lost count of the number of times I’ve seen this question asked online on various platforms, so I decided to take the baton in my hands, compile everything you need to know about them, and put them in this handy post. With the advent of technology, cloud storage has been gaining popularity with increasing adoption rates every year. As we know, 2 dominant players in the market are widely used amongst the old and the young alike and for various purposes....

The mechanism for managing and starting processes on boot has been changed. Until RHEL/CentOS 6.x, you would have created a script in /etc/init.d/ and enabled with the help of chkconfig but things are different on RHEL 7. It’s replaced by systemd and since it is more or less the default process manager on major Linux versions, System Admin versed in other flavors will feel right at home. In this article, we will explore what systemd is, what the reasons to the switch were, and how to use systemd to set up, run and manage background processes with it....

Security researchers are having a hard time keeping us secure. There are many ways to become a victim of cyber frauds running rampant on the internet. While you might have antivirus and know how to remove malware from a PC, these are software-based security solutions. This is basic security that a skilled cybercriminal can bypass. What’s tough to skip over is mechanisms backed inside the hardware. In that sense, having an active Trusted Platform Module (TPM) is vital....

There are many ways to implement HTTP response headers to secure sites from common vulnerabilities, such as XSS, Clickjacking, MIMI sniffing, cross-site injection, and many more. Its widely adopted practice and recommended by OWASP. Previously, I wrote about implementing headers in a web server like Apache, Nginx, and IIS. However, if you are using Cloudflare to protect and supercharge your sites, you may take advantage of Cloudflare Workers to manipulate the HTTP response headers....

We are going to build a simple script that, when executed, prints out the IP address of Google’s Search server. This script will use the Geekflare DNS Lookup API. To build it, we are going to use three approaches, the first uses the built-in https module in NodeJS. The second will use the node-fetch module. Then the last will use the axios client library. What is the Geekflare API? Geekflare API offers suits of REST APIs for website performance, DNS, and security metrics testing....

Among Us was one such game that could draw the attention of a large audience and create space in the hearts of all game lovers. This article focuses on all the critical features of the game that keep players glued to it for hours. About Among Us Among Us is online multi-player science fiction or social deduction murder secret game created by Innersloth. It runs on the Unity Game Engine motor....

And, if you are working on PCI compliant environment then this is something you must fix. Default Configuration will display Server banner as following HTTP response header Implementation Go to JBoss/bin folder Add following in standalone.conf under JAVA_OPTS variable Ex: Restart JBoss application server, and you should see Server header is changed. If you are interested in learning more about JBoss, then check out this course by Packt Publishing.

If you have the right tool, you can easily find information about a person for your personal or professional use. Maybe you lost contact with your old friend and want to reconnect with them or find a relative. There are lookup tools available that will help you get relevant information. Businesses and landlords can use these tools to do background checks on a person to check if the person is who they claim to be or do they have any criminal records, etc....