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What Is a Keylogger? How to Detect, Test, & Defend Against Them
Keyloggers remain one of the most effective tools in both attacks and ethical security testing — silently capturing passwords, commands, and user input. This post breaks down how keyloggers operate and, more importantly, how to detect, test, and defend your systems against them in modern environments.
Monthly Technical Operations Maintenance Window – March 14, 2015
The DataYard Technical Operations team will begin the monthly maintenance window for March at 6:00AM EDT, Saturday, March 14, 2015 with an anticipated completion time of
We’re Hiring! Receivables & Payables
We’re Hiring! Receivables & Payables DataYard is seeking an Accounts Receivable / Payable Clerk to maintain customer profiles, issue invoices, post payments, collect past due
Industry “Best Practices”?? I Don’t Care!
A staple of the information technology industry is the notion of a “best practice”. I’m not very fond of it. Best practices are supposed to
DataYard’s Speed Test Going Offline
DataYard’s Speed Test Going Offline Beginning January 21st, 2015, we are retiring the Internet speed test that we have offered at http://speedtest.donet.com/. There are numerous
SSLv3 Man in the Middle (POODLE)
SSLv3 Man in the Middle (POODLE) What Is It? Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption (POODLE) – a security vulnerability that forces the downgrade of
With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility
The technological landscape continues to evolve at a fantastic pace, and staying on top of it all can be challenging. In spite of the high
Ready Backup Scheduled Maintenance – October 06, 2014
The DataYard Technical Operations team will be performing an upgrade to our Ready Backup infrastructure beginning at 10:30 AM EDT on Monday October 06, 2014
Layer 2 Networking Pseudo Redundancies
Layer 2 Networking Pseudo Redundancies Premise I’ve seen many production networks that rely on layer 2 pseudo-redundancies through the core, and I’m here to explain
Routing Around Internet Congestion
Around 9:30AM EST, we started experiencing some choppy and dropped phone calls through our own internal SIP based phone system, and shortly after began receiving
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