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The Netizen team sharing expertise, insights and useful information in cybersecurity, compliance, and software assurance.
Category: Software Development
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With 70% of Microsoft’s 850 million active users on Windows 10, IT teams face critical transitions as the End of Support deadline approaches. Microsoft’s aggressive push for Windows 11 brings challenges like hardware upgrades and user resistance. Proactive planning and strategy are vital for seamless migration and operational security during this change.
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In October 2024, Microsoft addressed 118 vulnerabilities, including five zero-days, two actively exploited. Key vulnerabilities included three critical remote code executions. Other patched vulnerabilities ranged from elevation of privilege to denial of service. Users are urged to apply these patches promptly, while Adobe also released key updates for its products.
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How can developers ensure their software stands strong against the barrage of cyber threats today? The key lies in secure coding practices, which are crucial for building software that is not only functional but also resilient to potential security breaches. This article examines secure coding’s importance and unfolds through practical strategies like code minification, obfuscation,…
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Web 3.0, often referred to as the Semantic or Decentralized Web, has emerged over the past few years as a both an ideological and technological shift from the current state of the internet, referred to as Web 2.0. The new technology is defined by decentralized databases and distributed ledgers across nodes, reducing the risks in…
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With the popularization of generative AI tools like ChatGPT, information has become increasingly easy to retrieve. Ask it anything, and ChatGPT will respond to the best of its ability, modifying itself to your prompt’s specifications as best it can. The more detailed the prompt, the more specific of a response you can get from an…
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In a large ballroom inside the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas earlier this month, the next leap forward in the digital revolution took place in front of a crowd of hundreds of hackers in town for theDef Con security conference. There wasn’t a charismatic CEO on stage who would demonstrate a revolutionary new smartphone, nor was there an…
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Welcome to the Netizen IT Threat Intelligence Newsletter. A complimentary service of Netizen Corporation, intended to help protect your business from the ever growing and ever changing threat of cyber attacks. ZERO DAY VULNERABILITY ALERT HP Drops The Hammer On Unpatched Internet Explorer 11’s Zero Day Vulnerability ” Last year HP’s highly regarded Zero Day Initiative group found…
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Very often IT professionals have to pick up where many others have left off. All things started somewhere, but very few of us actually get to experience the ground floor and understand the mentality during the time a system was first conceived and created, especially in large organizations. What started off as a novel idea or approach…
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There is an age-old debate about what qualifies as “Software Engineering” versus “Programming” or “Coding” and it stems from a misconception in many parts of the tech community about exactly what true engineering entails. As software engineers do not generally have the rigorous certification processes in the United States that our civil and other engineering…
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Cheap, Fast or Good Software – Pick Two. Pick Right. There is a lot of buzz out there about the pace at which software is being made today. Forty-eight hour hackathons, endless “sprints” pushing developers to their breaking point to crank out new features, and countless nights trying to finalize “just one more” feature which was added…
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