Miscellaneous Tech News

Obsolesce

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/01/500000-chrome-users-fall-prey-to-malicious-extensions-in-google-web-store/

Seems worse than the stuff with the Microsoft app store people were crying about.

dbeato

https://blog.google/topics/grow-with-google/it-support-professional-certificate/?utm_source=HPP&utm_campaign=IT Cert

JaredBusch

WatchGuard bought Strongarm.io

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/watchguard-technologies-acquires-percipient-networks-and-adds-security-at-the-dns-layer-to-companys-smb-security-platform-300583673.html

dbeato

@jaredbusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

WatchGuard bought Strongarm.io

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/watchguard-technologies-acquires-percipient-networks-and-adds-security-at-the-dns-layer-to-companys-smb-security-platform-300583673.html

Hopefully things don't change much but we will see.

wrx7m

@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@jaredbusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

WatchGuard bought Strongarm.io

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/watchguard-technologies-acquires-percipient-networks-and-adds-security-at-the-dns-layer-to-companys-smb-security-platform-300583673.html

Hopefully things don't change much but we will see.

Is anyone here using strongarm.io?

dbeato

@wrx7m said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@jaredbusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

WatchGuard bought Strongarm.io

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/watchguard-technologies-acquires-percipient-networks-and-adds-security-at-the-dns-layer-to-companys-smb-security-platform-300583673.html

Hopefully things don't change much but we will see.

Is anyone here using strongarm.io?

I am

momurda

I will be soon according to this article.

scotth

@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@wrx7m said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@jaredbusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

WatchGuard bought Strongarm.io

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/watchguard-technologies-acquires-percipient-networks-and-adds-security-at-the-dns-layer-to-companys-smb-security-platform-300583673.html

Hopefully things don't change much but we will see.

Is anyone here using strongarm.io?

I am

Tagged it. Don't have time to read it right now.
Thanks

wrx7m

@momurda said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

I will be soon according to this article.

So you you have some watchguard products?

momurda

@wrx7m Yes an xtm515, they add new stuff to it just about every other update. this strongarm might only be available for their cloud services though.

mlnews

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/01/found-new-android-malware-with-never-before-seen-spying-capabilities/

mlnews

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/01/in-the-wild-malware-preys-on-computers-dedicated-to-mining-cryptocurrency/

JaredBusch

@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@wrx7m said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@jaredbusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

WatchGuard bought Strongarm.io

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/watchguard-technologies-acquires-percipient-networks-and-adds-security-at-the-dns-layer-to-companys-smb-security-platform-300583673.html

Hopefully things don't change much but we will see.

Is anyone here using strongarm.io?

I am

I have it at home for free and at a client as a paid service.

I am quite nervous about this purchase.

I was quite looking for a good competitor to Cisco Umbrella (formerly OpenDNS).

scottalanmiller

Same here. I wish they would have stayed independent.

black3dynamite

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/01/ubuntu-18-04-lts-will-ship-older-version-nautilus

black3dynamite

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/01/virtualbox-guest-additions-linux-kernel

Dashrender

@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/01/virtualbox-guest-additions-linux-kernel

How is this not bloat for the kernel?

scottalanmiller

@dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/01/virtualbox-guest-additions-linux-kernel

How is this not bloat for the kernel?

Because you don't compile them in when not needed

Dashrender

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/01/virtualbox-guest-additions-linux-kernel

How is this not bloat for the kernel?

Because you don't compile them in when not needed

Thanks, wasn't sure if that was an option or not. So during install, that's a choice. thanks.

DustinB3403

@dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/01/virtualbox-guest-additions-linux-kernel

How is this not bloat for the kernel?

I kind of read the article in a different light, as in "now you can test linux and it just works" (as in from Windows) and that VirtualBox is adding something (read the article before you rip into me people).

Clearly it's not that way, but it reads it.