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NGINX Plus vs. Citrix NetScaler: A Price‑Performance Comparison

2016-08-05 KENNETH 0

NGINX Plus vs. Citrix NetScaler: A Price‑Performance Comparison table, th, td { border: 1px solid black; } th { background-color: #d3d3d3; align: left; padding-left: 5px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 2px; line-height: 120%; } td { padding-left: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 5px; line-height: 120%; } A few months ago we published a blog comparing the price and performance of NGINX Plus vs. F5 BIG‑IP hardware application delivery controllers (ADCs). In researching and publishing that blog, we learned that by moving from F5 BIG‑IP to NGINX Plus you can drastically reduce costs while maintaining the same feature set and level of performance. In this blog we’re again comparing NGINX Plus price and performance, this time with Citrix NetScaler ADCs, and the results are just as strong as with F5 BIG‑IP ADCs. You can replace Citrix NetScaler ADCs with NGINX Plus and save up to 89% without any sacrifice in performance or critical features. [ more… ]

The Ink Canvas and Ruler: combining art and technology

2016-08-05 KENNETH 0

The Ink Canvas and Ruler: combining art and technology How easy is it to integrate Inking into your app? As easy as one line of XAML. In this post, we’re going to walk you through the new Windows 10 Inking capabilities, which are making communication via writing and drawing easier than ever for users. You’ll learn how to implement these new capabilities in your Windows app and how they will improve your users’ experience. The easiest ways for Universal Windows Platform developers to hook into this capability is through the Ink Canvas. We’ll start out with some examples of this. The built-in experience There are many potential applications of Inking. As a starting point, it’s helpful to think of a typical user of Inking apps – for instance, an insurance adjuster who spends more time in the field than in [ more… ]

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USN-3047-1: QEMU vulnerabilities

2016-08-05 KENNETH 0

USN-3047-1: QEMU vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3047-1 4th August, 2016 qemu, qemu-kvm vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Summary Several security issues were fixed in QEMU. Software description qemu – Machine emulator and virtualizer qemu-kvm – Machine emulator and virtualizer Details Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled 53C9X Fast SCSIcontroller emulation. A privileged attacker inside the guest could use thisissue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possiblyexecute arbitrary code on the host. In the default installation, when QEMUis used with libvirt, attackers would be isolated by the libvirt AppArmorprofile. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.(CVE-2016-4439, CVE-2016-4441, CVE-2016-5238, CVE-2016-5338, CVE-2016-6351) Li Qiang and Qinghao Tang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled theVMWare VGA module. [ more… ]

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Microsoft Bounty Programs Expansion – Microsoft Edge Remote Code Execution (RCE) Bounty

2016-08-05 KENNETH 0

Microsoft Bounty Programs Expansion – Microsoft Edge Remote Code Execution (RCE) Bounty I’m very happy to announce another addition to the Microsoft Bounty Programs. Microsoft will be hosting a bounty for Remote Code Execution vulnerabilities in Microsoft Edge on Windows Insider Preview builds. This bounty continues our partnership with the security research community in working to secure our platforms, in pre-release stages of the development process. The Windows Insider program is built to help shape the future of Windows, and represents the latest in features, including new security features and mitigations. For the latest information on new Windows features included in the Insider Previews, please visit the Windows 10 Insider Program Blog. As the bounty programs are pushing forward into earlier releases of software, there may be more instances of a vulnerability being reported which Microsoft is already working to [ more… ]