security

Starting today, Firefox is rolling out Total Cookie Protection by default to all Firefox users worldwide, making Firefox the most private and secure major browser available across Windows, Mac and Linux. Total Cookie Protection is Firefox's strongest privacy protection to date, confining cookies to the site where they were created, thus preventing tracking companies from using these cookies to track your browsing from site to site.

Many applications start their web server and database hosted on the same machine. It's simpler, cheaper and easier to manage. However, as our application grows , a setup like this can bring security issues and scalability problems. A common solution is to separate our database from the application: creating a dedicated database server and allowing applications to connect remotely. This setup is more secure, it can provide you a better analysis of the bottlenecks and definitely makes the scalability easier.

On Friday morning, shortly after midnight in New York, a global disaster began to unfold. In Australia, shoppers encountered Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) messages at self-checkout aisles. In the UK, Sky News suspended its broadcast after servers and PCs started crashing. Airport check-in desks in Hong Kong and India also failed. By morning in New York, millions of Windows computers had crashed, sparking a worldwide tech crisis.