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Tor, Security, and Clown Computing

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 16, 2023

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What is Tor and how does it work?

=> ↺ What is Tor and how does it work?

If you're keen to keep your online activities to yourself then Tor is a great option and well worth adding to your privacy toolkit.

Tor is a custom browser, which comes complete with clever open-source technology that uses some very smart tricks to protect your web anonymity.

Critical Control Web Panel Vulnerability Still Under Exploit Months After Patch Available [Ed: Alternative headline: many administrators do not patch critical software for many months.]

=> ↺ Critical Control Web Panel Vulnerability Still Under Exploit Months After Patch Available

A 9.8 severity vulnerability in Control Web Panel, previously known as CentOS Web Panel, allows an attacker to remotely execute arbitrary shell commands through a very simple mechanism. Although readily patched, security organizations are reporting it is under active exploit.

Microsoft’s fix for disappearing Windows application shortcuts doesn’t bring them back [Ed: Even Tom Warren, a Microsoft parrot and mouthpiece, seems upset about this. Microsoft's monopoly rents perish with nothing to replace them except hype and clownwashing.]

=> ↺ Microsoft’s fix for disappearing Windows application shortcuts doesn’t bring them back

Cloud optimisation: cut your 2023 cloud spending by two-thirds

=> ↺ Cloud optimisation: cut your 2023 cloud spending by two-thirds

Cloud optimisation enables organisations to significantly lower their cloud spending while ensuring the desired performance and necessary compliance. It’s a process that every business should adopt when choosing cloud infrastructure as a foundation for their applications. It’s been proven that applying cloud optimisation best practices leads to a total cost of ownership (TCO) reduction of two-thirds under certain circumstances.�

But let’s step back for a second. How exactly does cloud optimisation help you avoid high costs? What exactly does it involve? And finally, why should you care about your cloud spending at all? These are all critical questions. Questions that deserve good answers. Let’s answer them as best as we can.

“Canonical’s solution was a third of the price of the other proposals we’d received. The solution is also proving to be highly cost-effective, both from CAPEX and OPEX perspectives.”

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