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Clone Phishing Explained
Attempts to infiltrate malware onto computers systems typically come from one of two sources: email and web sites. The most effective often use both. Phishes are one type of email used to attempt to get users to click on a link that will either get them to install malware or enter user credentials that can be used to infiltrate a real website. Continue reading
The Basics of HIPAA-Compliant Backup
This article covers all the fundamental basics of HIPAA cloud backup compliance. More specifically, it discusses the essential principles of HIPAA, how and why HIPAA legislation is relevant to your cloud backup strategy, plus of course, how to comply with HIPAA when you’re backing up to the cloud. Continue reading
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How You Can Use AWS Free Tier: SQS, SNS, SES
This is the third in a three-part series covering the Amazon Web Services (AWS) free tier. In our previous articles, we reviewed the free tier for the AWS compute and database offerings. In this article, you will learn about the messaging options provided by AWS. We will cover Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), and Amazon Simple Email Service (SES). Continue reading
Resize Partitions in Linux
In this article, we will overview how to resize a partition in a Linux. We will use only built-in tools and commands.
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How to Check Your VPN for Data Leaks
Just a few short years ago, virtual private networks (VPNs) were a novel technology to the masses. The advanced security and anonymity they offered were only for paranoids and dissidents. Fast forward to today’s internet with its daily headlines of massive data breaches, government snooping, and a Dark Web with an endless appetite for your personal information. Continue reading
How to Resize a Partition on macOS
If you are performing data recovery on the changed hardware setup you often need to resize partitions of your drive. In this article, we will overview this process for Macs.
How to Resize Partition on Windows OS
In this article, we are going to show how to resize HDD/SSD drive partitions keeping user and system data. Partition resizing is a common task if your hard drive needs to be replaced in any case (except failure) or you would like to reorganize stored data in a new way. Continue reading
How You Can Use AWS Free Tier — Databases
This article covers the Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), Amazon DynamoDB, and AWS Data Migration Service. For each tool, we will cover what it is, how it’s billed and the available free tier, and some example projects you can try.
How You Can Use AWS Free Tier — Cloud Compute
Cloud computing has triggered a sea change in how application development is done. Amazon Web Services, or AWS, is the leader in the cloud computing space and provides computing infrastructure for many of the largest companies in the world. Continue reading
Cryptojacking: How to Detect and Avoid
Modern hackers now look to take advantage of the mining boom by building malware that can hijack one or more systems and remotely use the hardware for financial gain. Such attacks are known as cryptojacking and continue to affect more and more internet users. Continue reading
How to Resize an Amazon Elastic Block Store Volume
Reaching a capacity limit in Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS)? Need more IOPS for an app or web-service? Due to its design, Amazon EBS doesn’t allow to scale the volume size dynamically or extend volume IOPS. If a user needs more space, he has to buy another Amazon EBS volume and then spend hours to backup data from the original volume, verify its consistency and then restore on the new one.
This article is a step-by-step guide on how to use AWS built-in features to easily resize the Amazon EBS volume.
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