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Docker is the de facto toolset for building modern applications and setting up a CI/CD pipeline – helping you build, ship, and run your applications in containers on-prem and in the cloud.  Whether you’re running on simple compute instances such as AWS EC2 or something fancier like a hosted Kubernetes service, Docker’s toolset is your new BFF.  But what about your local Node.js development environment? Setting up local dev environments while also juggling the hurdles…

Using a VPN on your smartphone can boost your privacy in a big way, particularly with all the data tracking that’s happening out there today.  For some time now, we’ve recommended a VPN when using public Wi-Fi in airports, libraries, hotels, and coffee shops. Given that these are public networks, a determined hacker can snoop on the other devices transmitting data on it. With a VPN, any connection becomes a secure connection, which includes public…

Three connected campaigns delivered a variety of threats, including the ModernLoader bot, RedLine information-stealer and cryptocurrency-mining malware to victims between March and June 2022. The association between the three apparently unrelated campaigns was made by security researchers at Cisco Talos, who said the aforementioned threat actors compromised vulnerable web applications to deliver threats via fake Amazon gift cards. “This technique was observed on one of the infected systems in our telemetry,” the company wrote in a…

Despite an evolving internet penetration rate of 47% in 2020, according to Internet World statistics, the social use of ICTs remains the main cause of digital illiteracy in Africa. Irrespective of the various ways of learning, and the abundance of information and knowledge, “use of digital in Africa remains basic and likely to favor digital acculturation to the detriment of cultural enhancement and an intellectual revolution,” according to the Gefona Digital Foundation, a research NGO…

Despite an evolving internet penetration rate of 47% in 2020, according to Internet World statistics, the social use of ICTs remains the main cause of digital illiteracy in Africa. Irrespective of the various ways of learning, and the abundance of information and knowledge, “use of digital in Africa remains basic and likely to favor digital acculturation to the detriment of cultural enhancement and an intellectual revolution,” according to the Gefona Digital Foundation, a research NGO…

A server outage has impacted library services company Baker & Taylor’s systems and applications, said the firm on Twitter on August 23, 2022. A day later, the firm confirmed it engaged outside third-party experts to fix the issue. Baker & Taylor’s systems remained offline the following week, and on Monday, the company made an announcement on its website, confirming it was hit by a ransomware attack. “Our team has been working around the clock to return to normal…