It is a great tool. When I got a bigger hard drive for my wife's laptop, I was able to use Clonezilla to save her old hard drive and migrate it to the bigger one.
Definitely a lot of room for disruption in banking and fintech. Difficult with international and local regulations, but definitely opportunities both for financial education and also new models (and the growth of simple old models like local credit unions). I wonder how this differs by country.
Absolutely. I think many companies don't have DDoS protection on their online infrastructure.
Patching, changing admin and default passwords, periodically changing passwords are all practices that fall behind.
With the rise of IoT and more and more devices that can be infected with malware, these connected devices get ignored. We protect our PC and maybe our mobile phones, but what about our IP-connected cameras and office phones. You can use the Mirai scanner to see what devices are vulnerable: https://www.incapsula.com/mirai-scanner/
Security for so many elements end up being seen of as an afterthought. For Android, there are so many different moving parts - from hardware, as others have mentioned - to multiple libraries, poor malware and antiviruses and other protections, and so many different libraries.
Some people don't do anything until it happens to them. Also, as the Dyn attack and Mirai botnets show, many IPs are compromised and used to send out attacks but they themselves aren't attacked - and so they don't know they are "infected." And, like the store of the family that buys fire insurance after their neighbor (or worse their own house) catches on fire, people underestimate their own risk.
I suspect Incapsula can, though certainly it's a large attack. Ideally DNS providers need to have enterprise-level protection of their own DNS (https://www.incapsula.com/dns-ddos-protection-services.html) and not just leave it to the individual sites. Ideally, a mix of smart profiling is the best approach as there's no single approach to blocking such a large attack.
1. Definitely need to educate oneself about DDoS. Incapsula's DDoS Knowledge Center is a great resource tool https://www.incapsula.com/ddos/
2. Everyone - whether an individual blogger or a large enterprise - out to use a hybrid or cloud-based DDoS mitigation service like Imperva Incapsula. It's the only service with security first (other providers are CDNs and other add-ons with security as a second thought, but whomever you use, something is better than nothing). Note as well for small operations that Incapsula also has a free service (they don't always promote their free offering as well as others) https://www.incapsula.com/pricing-and-plans.html
Anyone who has any devices needs to protect themselves, just as we all have firewalls and antivirus, at the appropriate level.
Unfortunately, stopping support for Flash won't stop Flash. A lot of websites (from your church's streaming Sunday services to local government town hall will continue using Flash for a long time). Of course, the top techy site and middle-adopter won't anymore and that is good. But remember how long it took web developers to stop needing to support Internet Explorer 6. Don't underestimate the longevity of legacy technology.
It's great to see vendors consider security issues, especially due to the increase in DDoS attacks that can use IoT (connected) devices. Good job Canonical!
Linux has a command line and the ability to control one's environment. Mac also has some of these benefits, in part because of its roots with the Linux kernal and many shops are now letting their developers use Mac OS X. However, the hardware costs are prohibitive for many companies as Mac is more expensive up-front than Linux or Windows.
Windows development is great for Windows but in the age of cross-platform development (web, mobile, as well as the rise of Mac OS users) that has its limitations.
You have to think about what your BANT is - Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement. And that can change, so if you get a similar offer again, that just might be your worth. And sometimes one needs to take a bad deal to get their foot in the door. But, it's also a question of the market and the risk of a company lowballing you is that you won't take it. But ask around to get a sense of market conditions.
DDoS attacks can take down the Internet (as we just saw in the attack on Dyn’s DNS) and even the taking down of Liberia’s internet. And many of us are culprits, without even knowing.
Microsoft just announced the launch of Visual Studio for Mac (based on Xamarin). It's great if you want to C# development. Have you tried Eclipse or Android Studio?