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Not my words—Michael Horowitz, an independent cybersecurity researcher, recently published a blog —claiming the exact words. He further added that he found vulnerabilities in the iOS devices—preventing VPNs from re-routing the network traffic and terminating established sessions before connecting to the VPN. As an Apple user, you must expect a certain degree of security on your iPhone. While Apple is known for its security products and privacy practices and puts its users first regarding overall protection and application tracking, it still doesn’t ensure the utmost data security regarding your browsing behavior....

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....

Businesses nowadays usually store their essential data on the Cloud or hard drives. But before you could do either of them, there’s a fair chance you can lose data. How? The major cause of data loss is an accidental deletion, which can happen at any time and by any person despite knowing they should back it up. After all, to err is human! So, did you just hit the “delete” button for the file containing all the information about the new project you were going to present tomorrow?...

It’s essential to know what’s going on with all your investments, not just once a year when you get your tax forms. Luckily, there are investment management apps to help. They monitor and track your portfolio for any changes that might affect you. Your portfolio might include stocks, bonds, mutual funds, ETFs, 401(k)s, or IRAs. Keeping track of all these assets can be a challenging, if not a daunting, task....

You may at times see social media posts saying that so and so person purchased a specific NFT or so and so person created their own NFT and sold it online. People all over the internet are earning lump sum money through these NFTs. Hence, people are concentrating on creating newer and better NFTs so that they can earn a huge profit. One such important NFT and associated club that you need to know about is the Bored Ape Yacht Club....

Overview of the CompTIA A+ Certification Are you looking to start a career in the IT field and looking for foundational certification or working in the IT field and want to pursue an IT certification? Then this post will help you in your journey. To maintain and support their IT infrastructure and devices, almost all enterprises in the world require the services of IT experts or professionals. Employers worldwide prefer professionals carrying CompTIA A+ Certification for technical support and operational IT roles....

Let’s take a real-time scenario where you have three console opened and need to adjust the JVM memory in each console with different value. Since all consoles looks identical, there is high chance in doing first console changes to the third one or vice versa. That’s where configuring console identity helps you in reducing this risk. Console identity helps you to put custom text in banner so you know in which DMGR console you are logged in....

Stories have many benefits, such as improving brand visibility, generating leads, and receiving instant feedback on your content. If you’re planning to use Instagram stories, you’ll probably want to use an Instagram story maker. These tools have ready-made templates and features to take your content to the next level. By standing out with your stories, you’ll see an increased engagement and following. In this article, you will know why Instagram story makers are vital to your business and share the best tools to use....

As you’re reading this article, I am sure you’ve already heard about the GDPR law that came into profound effect back in 2018. It sent most bloggers and website owners into a panic mode because they had no clue how to be GDPR compliant. Though there are quite a few things you need to follow to be GDPR-compliant, two of them are adding a proper privacy policy and cookie consent on your website....

We are really at the heart of the Big Data phenomenon right now, and companies can no longer ignore the impact of data on their decision-making. As a reminder, the data considered Big Data meet three criteria: velocity, speed, and variety. However, you can’t process Big Data with traditional systems and technologies. It is with a view to overcoming this problem that Apache Software Foundation has proposed the most used solutions, namely Hadoop and Spark....

And since PDF format is the most convenient way to represent any kind of document, it’s the best choice to have your web pages converted into. If you’ve been wondering how to make a web page into a PDF, then I am here to tell you that it’s incredibly easy and simple to do that. There are many online tools available that can instantly convert your HTML pages into PDF format with the best possible result....

Any company or website’s support team uses this HAR file to identify and resolve performance issues such as longer or slow loading times, page rendering issues, and error codes that may arise due to these issues. What is a HAR file? An HTTP archive Format, also known as a HAR file, is a JSON-formatted archive file that comprises your most recent network activity as recorded by your web browser. It tracks all the interactions, such as web requests and responses between a web browser and a website....

Encryption can be defined as “the translation of data into a secret code”. It is the best way to achieve data security. To access or read data from an encrypted file, you must have the secret key or, in simple words, a password that will help you in file decryption. For the security algorithms, unencrypted data is known as plain text, while the encrypted data is known as ciphertext. Data in encrypted files are stored as complex code that would be hard to break within a reasonable amount of time....

One of the frequent questions I receive is how to find out what CDN is used on a particular site? We all love curiosity. Isn’t it? Previously, I wrote about how to find the technologies being used on a site, and in this post, I’ll explain how to check the CDN. There are two possible ways, so choose your preference. Using Online Tools Probably the quickest way to find is by using the tools....

Depending on your purchase, you either have the product key or a digital license to your copy of Windows 11. A digital license is linked to your Microsoft account. You mostly get one if you have upgraded from earlier genuine Windows versions, purchased an upgrade (ex. home to pro) from Microsoft, bought Windows 11 from the Microsoft Store app, etc. In other cases where you have gone to an authorized retailer or Microsoft store, you get a product key instead....

It sold its products with the same effect even after the global pandemic. Despite being expensive, people love to buy Apple products happily every year. One of the main reasons behind this popularity and craze for Apple products is its ecosystem. Let’s briefly understand what an Apple ecosystem is. An Apple ecosystem is the collective use of Apple hardware, software, and services that can work and interact with each other....

What is KeePass? KeePass is one of the most loved open-source password managers. This is entirely self-hosted, meaning you will have the database wherever you want. Consequently, you’ll bear complete responsibility for your data. This is enticing to many, owning to rampant data breaches that cripple many cloud-hosted companies. In addition, this is free with a highly supportive and big community that has forked KeePass for many devices across operating systems....

Puppet Bolt is an open-source tool which is widely used to automate the manual work. Bolt is based on Ruby and its command-line tool which get execute scripts, command on a local and remote server over SSH and WinRM. It helps Sysadmin to manage multiple servers in many ways. Manage updates Software installation Logs reading Stop or start services Command execution The good news is you don’t need to install any agent on the servers....

Why spend hundreds of dollars per month when you can send more than 100,000 emails in around $25 per? As you can see if you send ~100,000 emails using Sendy, it would cost $10.02 per month. Do you think why I said $25? Here you go… Sendy is a self-hosted email marketing software which can be installed on VPS or Cloud server. It leverages AWS SES to send emails at a much cheaper cost....

While working with the cloud providers I have seen sometimes Memory metrics not available in the monitoring dashboard. I always wanted to know & find the easiest way to get real-time data metrics of Linux VM. After looking around & checking on the internet, I come across two possible ways to get the memory metrics. Using Google Cloud Monitoring Formally known as Stackdriver, you can install a monitoring agent on the VM which starts pushing memory and disk metrics....