Ransomware cost $1 billion this year, and 48.3% of users were attacked by encryption ransomware last year. Update: Over the weekend, new malware has hit the Internet – WannaCry or WannaCrypt0r 2.0 WannaCry or WannaCrypt0r 2.0 is a new type of ransomware malware that has already infected more than 75,000 computers in 99 countries. As usual, attacker encrypts your computer files and demand for ransom payments. WannaCry is targeting large number of file types including ....

Code editors are the second most significant reason for programmer flame wars (the first one being code formatting). To some, Vim is the only sensible editor ever created, while to others everything that doesn’t fit the Inception-like spirally head-spinning world of Emacs is only fit for ridicule. If you’re badly looking for attention, all you need to do is go to a programming community and start a thread like “Why I think X (pick any popular code editor) sucks/is the best,” grab some beer and relax....

Emails have become an essential piece of data in the current times. Whether you want to visit a webpage to view its content, surf through videos on video streaming sites, or even download academic resources like research papers, question papers, etc., you need an email to get access. While most of these sites might be authentic and verified, many of them might use your email address and the data provided by your emails for some malicious task....

There is plenty of open-source software available that can support you remarkably as a web and graphic designer. Open source is valuable because of their price tag zero, and supportive community spreads across the world. In present economic circumstances, open-source tools are an excellent place to start looking. It isn’t very easy in the world of design to maintain a professional career as a graphic designer only with open-source apps....

This is all because of the specific word ‘advertisements.’ There are multiple growing startups and settled businesses in this fast-growing world. A majority of them keep aside a significant sum for their marketing purpose. Back in the 20th century, these industrialists and company owners had options like newspapers, magazines, and flyers. Apart from them, there was a small scope in a television advertisement, but it was not that massive market for advertisers as the number of users was low....

Packet Capture refers to intercepting and collecting a data packet as it travels over a network connection. Data packets are recorded and inspected to identify and manage network problems like high latency and glitches. The information acquired from packet analysis is used to assist a Network Administrator in troubleshooting and fixing network faults in a shorter amount of time. Packet Analysis is used for some of the following tasks....

Notifications about pending emails, arriving orders, and received messages keep landing on our smartphones, and we can’t fathom how much we’ll miss out if it were not for them. Undoubtedly, Notifications are what promptly deliver critical information on our devices and prevent important tasks from slipping out of our minds. In the fast-moving world, users appreciate receiving alerts on several platforms, not just one. For instance, users would want to be notified about a delayed flight not just via SMS but also an email....

Desktop virtualization has been looked upon as a solution for enabling central management security of your user’s desktops with less IT management overhead. Using virtual desktops that have a Windows operating system, you can access it from an iPad and Android device desktop or a laptop. You have access to your personalized desktop environment or a workspace. This means I can work at home, at the office, from a hotel, or anywhere else....

As your business grows, your resources, workforce, services, systems, and IT infrastructure also begins to grow. Hence, a performance monitoring solution becomes important to observe the health, activities, and capability of your servers. In this article, I will talk about multiple light-weight free-to-use tools to monitors servers. Every IT admin faces these challenges – server crash, slow application, unexpected downtime, configuring dependencies, troubleshoot memory leaks, etc. To solve these problems, IT monitoring software/applications are required....

Website visitors aren’t always people made from flesh and meat: Sometimes they’re bots. Bots mostly scour websites to collect statistics for search engines like Google and Yahoo, but there are also bots that harvest information, create fake accounts, spread viruses or spam comment sections on autopilot – and these are the ones that can do the most damage. A sudden take over by site bots can be overwhelming, and it’s a potential nightmare for a site administrator who prefers to run a clean ship....

Organizations of all sizes around the world use Microsoft products, and as per Statista report, Microsoft Windows has over 69% market share as of Dec 2021. A significant global market share of Windows servers has a core engine. Without it, the Windows server can’t be a domain controller and can’t play an important role in server networks worldwide. The core engine of Microsoft Windows Server is Active Directory (AD). Active Directory (AD) is the mainstay of the server that provides authentication for every resource that tries to access domain resources in the infrastructure....

It may improve your organic traffic, paid performance, and social media presence. Of course, you will need to measure how effectively your marketing campaigns work. Conversion tracking is the practice of measuring the performance of display media and search media marketing. Conversion tracking keeps track of all the actions that turned into conversions. Besides tracking conversion counts, it also helps you analyze the actions and behaviors of your customers toward your brand....

Many construction sites, mining firms, and forestry and agriculture departments are taking advantage of drone mapping to increase efficiency, quality, and speed in their operations. However, drone mapping is still new to most of these industries. Thus, the users must get things like the software choice right for the best results. Drone mapping refers to using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drones to capture aerial data with downward-facing sensors such as LIDAR payloads, multispectral cameras, or RGB....

Although many video games are portraying modern warfare, only a few have managed to provide that realistic and immersive experience. And Arma 3 is one such video game. Probably, that’s the reason why there’s so much hype around this game. If you have ever played Arma 3, you would know how awesome this is. But if you haven’t, don’t worry; we will cover all about the game before announcing our top server hosting providers....

Digital advertising is about growing online presence, brand awareness, and constantly improving ways to reach potential customers. Ad tracking tools help businesses gain useful insight, optimize campaigns, and achieve higher ROI. What are Ad Tracking Tools? Ad Tracking tools offer an all-in-one platform to gain insight into demographics and impressions and help boost sales of a business. These tools provide valuable insights to identify new marketing opportunities, build targeted marketing campaigns, manage customer relationships and win over leads....

Imagine you forgot to bring your laptop to the office that has files you need for the presentation. And the meeting is soon to start. Would you like to go back all the way to your home to bring the laptop? What would you do if your home is far away? Instead of troubling yourself with all this, you can connect your laptop using a remote desktop client software and start your presentation that you have prepared with a lot of effort....

In a traditional application, you manage the entire application logic execution on a VM, physical, or cloud server. However, the trend is changing. By going to serverless architecture, you offload the application code execution task to a serverless computing platform. It has many benefits. You don’t need to worry about hosting runtime (Node.js, Python, Go, etc.) Pay what your application consumes (cost-effective) Don’t worry about application grown demand (scalable) Let the provider manage the security, software updates Easy integration with other services offering by the provider Fast time to application deployment and changes...

You might have noticed that leading online gamers have unique and engaging nicknames. These nicknames reflect their online identity and give outstanding attention to their online persona. As you know, gaming is completely different from our real lives. Therefore most gamers don’t like to keep their nicknames the same as their real names. You might be looking to do the same if you enter the gaming world and a similar online community....

Reverse engineering is often used to gain a better understanding of a product or system in order to improve it, to create competing products or systems, or to identify and fix flaws or vulnerabilities. It is commonly used in fields such as software development, manufacturing, and security. However, reverse engineering can also be used for malicious purposes, such as stealing trade secrets or creating counterfeit products. For this reason, reverse engineering is often regulated by laws governing intellectual property and trade secrets....

Sign language is a great technique for deaf and mute individuals to communicate their thoughts. Although only a few people are aware, sign language isn’t universal, as different people from different countries speak their sign language. Owing to that, the signs and gestures have been organized linguistically. In its essence, sign language is a combination of the following components: Hand gestures Facial expressions Finger spell Touch Timing, and Body language....