Finding ways to make your employees more productive should be one of your main goals. When it comes to collecting and accessing data, finding modern solutions to help with this process is a must. Studies show that small business employees spend nearly 23 percent of their workday manually inputting. Rather than allowing this waste of productivity to occur, you need to use … [Read more...]
Today’s Patch Tuesday fixes critical bug in Windows’ Malware Protection Engine and updates Adobe Flash Player
The second Tuesday of the month is always busy with updates from many operating system and software vendors, except February 2017 when Microsoft delayed updates until March. Microsoft Today's updates included Microsoft's usual updates for May 2017: Internet Explorer Microsoft Edge Microsoft Windows Microsoft Office and Microsoft Office Services and Web Apps … [Read more...]
Dell begins releasing BIOS updates to address Intel AMT Security Advisory
Dell has started releasing BIOS updates to computers affected by the disclosed vulnerability in the Intel AMT framework. Intel's Active Management Technology, Intel Standard Manageability, and Intel Small Business Technology all have the vulnerability and Dell is working to mitigate the problem with BIOS firmware updates. Dell issued a client statement on the topic (PDF). … [Read more...]
No love from Microsoft today as Patch Tuesday delayed
Despite being the second Tuesday of the month, Microsoft has delayed the security bulletins scheduled for today. From the Microsoft Security Response Center, they share that a last minute issue is going to delay this month's updates: This month, we discovered a last minute issue that could impact some customers and was not resolved in time for our planned updates … [Read more...]
Free book: Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems
Site reliability engineering is treating your operations/production environment like a software problem. Monitoring performance and other metrics are key. It's what makes an outage of Google Search, Gmail, YouTube, and other Google products so rare. You can learn from the folks at Google with a free O'Reilly book Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production … [Read more...]