A vulnerability within the glibc DNS client used by many recent Linux distributions has recently been identified. This vulnerability has the potential to allow malicious access to affected devices and software, allowing a third-party to cause a crash or run malicious code. A patch to fix the issue has already been released. This patch is… Read More »
Hi All, The last week has been interesting here at ITSS as we have had a much larger than usual number of requests for our data recovery services. What makes it more interesting is that in almost all cases, the problem was presented to us as ‘My backup drive has crashed – please help me… Read More »
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For many people, SSDs are the best thing since sliced bread. Ultrafast and no longer susceptible to knocks and vibration – it seemed as though spinning disks were destined for the scrap-heap. However, as Korelogic have found, long term storage on an unpowered drive can be troublesome. Every 5 degrees C increase in the temperature… Read More »
Walk into any Dar es Salaam office with more than a handful of computers and you will hear the same complaints about the Internet. “Oh it’s too slow”, “Why won’t this page load!?” etc Many office managers will attempt to solve the problem of slow internet by getting faster internet. It seems to be the… Read More »