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By Brent Hansen Feb 22, 2021 Agencies likely have the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) program on their minds as a result of the Office of Management and Budget’s November memo requiring they share cyber risk data to a new federal dashboard. Specifically, the memo notes, agencies are required to “report the status of their information security programs to OMB,” with inspectors general conducting “annual independent assessments of those programs.” What should an agency’s �...

Over the last year, cyber criminals tried to acquire information related to the virus and possible vaccines or extort the health care industry, according to a new report said.

added an HDCD decoder DSP filter added catalog number and barcode fields to tag editor added file type associations to macOS app, so fre:ac is offered for opening audio files added quality (VBR) setting to FDK-AAC configuration dialog improved MP3, AAC and Opus encoding performance by up to 30% improved multi-monitor support on X11 based systems discs of multi-disc albums are now shown separately in tag editor album mode update only changed fields when making edits in tag editor album mode adde...

Cross-platform, full-featured but user-friendly alternative to WinRar, WinZip and similar general purpose archive manager applications, works with 180+ archive formats: 001, 7Z, ACE, ARC, ARJ...etc.

Universal Media Server is a DLNA-compliant UPnP Media Server. The program streams or transcodes many different media formats with little or no configuration.

Feb 9, 2021 13:20 EST with 0 comments Free Download Manager is a powerful, easy-to-use and absolutely free download accelerator and manager. FDM accelerates downloads by splitting files into sections and then downloading them simultaneously. As a result download speed increases up to 600%, or even more! FDM can also resume broken downloads so you needn`t start downloading from the beginning after casual interruption. FDM lets you download files and whole web sites from any remote ...

Feb 13, 2021 06:28 EST with 0 comments  Calibre is an open source e-book library management application that enables you to manage your e-book collection, convert e-books between different formats, synchronize with popular e-book reader devices, and read your e-books with the included viewer. It acts as an e-library and also allows for format conversion, news feeds to e-book conversion, as well as e-book reader sync features and an integrated e-book viewer. Calibres features in...

Feb 11, 2021 12:22 EST with 1 comment CrystalDiskInfo is a HDD/SSD health monitoring utility. It displays basic HDD (also SSD and USB-HDD) information, monitors S.M.A.R.T. values and disk temperature. It will also display the S.M.A.R.T data as a list so you can see the specific issue that a hard drive may have. It provides a health rating based on your drive’s SMART status, plus will list its temperature, enabling you to see just how hot your drives are running. As various facto...

Feb 14, 2021 23:58 EST with 0 comments Notepad++ is a free (as in "free speech" and also as in "free beer") source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment, its use is governed by GPL License. Based on the powerful editing component Scintilla, Notepad++ is written in C++ and uses pure Win32 API and STL which ensures a higher execution speed and smaller program size. By optimizing as many routines as possible without...

Will Data Eat the World? Yes, With Some Help from Open Source Alfred Essa, VP, Analytics and R&D, McGraw-Hill Education Alfred Essa, VP, Analytics and R&D, McGraw-Hill Education “Six decades into the computer revolution, four decades since the invention of the microprocessor, and two decades into the rise of the modern Internet, all of the technology required to transform industries through software finally works and can be widely delivered at global scale.”         �...