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By GCN Staff Jan 11, 2021 Federal IT staff have a massive job ahead of them cleaning up after the rioters who broke into the U.S. Capitol building, some of whom rifled through lawmakers offices. While improving physical security for the building and for lawmakers and staff who work there is the first priority, experts have said the rioters’ unprecedented access to offices, files and computers can have serious cybersecurity ramifications. In some instances, IT equipment was stolen. Sen. Jeff M...

With more advanced detection, investigation and mitigation technologies and processes, agencies can present a much stronger defense against cyber criminals intent on using ransomware as a route to extortion.

®, today announced that it has been included on the Forbes 2020 list of America’s Largest Private companies. Carahsoft rose 17 ranks to #61 in its fifth consecutive year on the list, and 2020 marks the company’s second time in the top 100. The 36 th annual ranking of America’s largest private companies, this year’s list features 219 companies with revenue greater than $2 billion in the most recent fiscal year. Carahsoft remains the largest IT software and services company appearing on ...

Easy to use with no big vendor lock-in? Nice idea but its still early days Tim Anderson Tue 12 Jan 2021 // 14:32 UTC Share Copy Red Kubes, a small company based in the Netherlands, has released a free Community Edition of its Otomi Container Platform with the goal of making Kubernetes both easier to use and more portable between cloud providers or on-premises. "Otomi is not a Kubernetes distribution," Red Kubes CEO and co-founder Sander Rodenhuis told The Reg. "We expec...

How to Publish Artifacts to Maven Central Publishing artifacts to Maven Central with GitHub Actions made easy! by Publishing your first artifact to  Maven Central can be as exciting as it can be confusing. We’ll see together how to make your first time as smooth as it should be, while also making sure people can easily contribute to your open source Java libraries. Lastly, we’ll see how to craft a Maven Central-ready CI/CD pipeline via Introduction Uploading your Java code to Maven Cent...

Dispatchers, firefighters, police and emergency medical services teams want the devices they already have to work better.

nice to see this up to date it works better now fails to find 1 channel Hauppauge 1600 tv card hilfer reviewed v1.2.0 RC on Aug 30, 2011 The best and the easier to configure. Vimes reviewed v1.1.0 Beta 1 on Sep 1, 2009 I would spend sometime reading the release notes within their forum.... ...whilst this beat does require testing and feedback you must remember that it is a beta and not recommended to use full time on a media PC. For that they have ve...

plain text accounting Plain text accounting means doing accounting with plain text data formats and scriptable software, in the style of Ledger, hledger, beancount, and co. This site collects FAQs and a directory for the PTA communitys tools, docs and practices. It is maintained by Simon Michael (hledger project leader, Ledger contributor, PTA researcher & fan), and contributors like you. Got feedback ? Join us in #plaintextaccounting or send an edit. FAQ What and why What is Accounting, and...

Using Signal: Why you need a pin, how to use it on desktop and other questions answered Signal has seen 2.3 million new downloads between January 6 and January 10, according to Sensor Tower. What is drawing users to Signal is its focus on privacy and security. Signal notes that it does not sell, rent or monetise your data or content in any way. advertisement (Picture: Signal) HIGHLIGHTS You can set up a pin on Signal that helps retain information, including the contacts you have blocked if you ...

What happens when you open source everything? Many open source software companies embraced the open core model to increase revenues. Yugabyte found greater rewards leaving open core behind Credit: Dreamstime Chef co-founder Adam Jacob argues you should follow his lead and go all in on open source. Not open source “Community” with paid-for “Enterprise” bits. Open. Source. It. All. Sounds great. But what will it mean for your business? Sure, you want to be popular with the o...