Monitoring NGINX and NGINX Plus: Highlights from Our Blog

2017-01-05 KENNETH 0

Monitoring NGINX and NGINX Plus: Highlights from Our Blog The bigger and busier your site, the more important it is to monitor it. A good monitoring solution gives you visibility into your site helping you maintain uptime, performance, and security. Monitoring is one of the most popular topics on the NGINX blog, with a completely new, NGINX‑focused monitoring tool – NGINX Amplify – added in the last year. There are three types of monitoring solutions we’ve highlighted on the NGINX website: Active health checks and monitoring in NGINX Plus. Third party solutions from NGINX partners such as AppDynamics, Datadog, Dynatrace, and New Relic. NGINX Amplify, our new tool for monitoring application delivery with NGINX and NGINX Plus – introduced in 2016, and now in a very popular public beta. Active Health Checks and Monitoring in NGINX Plus Active health checks are one of the most useful features in [ more… ]

CES 2017: MSI launches VR-ready gaming PCs

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CES 2017: MSI launches VR-ready gaming PCs Brand-new VR-ready gaming laptops, gaming motherboards, ultimate gaming graphics cards equipped with TWIN FROZR VI, gaming desktop PCs and Gaming Gear peripherals will bring gamers all over the world the latest and greatest technologies. With Windows 10, these devices have your personal digital assistant, Cortana, built-in, are equipped with the Xbox app and Direct X12 and can take advantage of Xbox Play Anywhere. Let’s take a closer look at what MSI announced today: MSI gaming laptops with performance, resolution and multimedia Thanks to the new the Intel 7th generation CPU and NVIDIA GeForce GTX1050 Ti & GTX1050 gaming graphics cards, the gaps between laptops and desktops are further shortened, delivering the faster and smoother VR experience to all gamers.  All of MSI’s gaming notebooks equipped with the latest NVIDIA PASCAL graphics cards are VR-ready, [ more… ]

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USN-3163-1: NSS vulnerabilities

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USN-3163-1: NSS vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3163-1 4th January, 2017 nss vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 16.10 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Summary Several security issues were fixed in NSS. Software description nss – Network Security Service library Details It was discovered that NSS incorrectly handled certain invalidDiffie-Hellman keys. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw tocause NSS to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue onlyapplied to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.(CVE-2016-5285) Hubert Kario discovered that NSS incorrectly handled Diffie Hellman clientkey exchanges. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to perform asmall subgroup confinement attack and recover private keys. This issue onlyapplied to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.(CVE-2016-8635) Franziskus Kiefer discovered that [ more… ]

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CES 2017: LG showcases new Gram laptops powered by Windows 10

2017-01-05 KENNETH 0

CES 2017: LG showcases new Gram laptops powered by Windows 10 With near edgeless touch screens to unlock experiences like Windows Ink and built in finger print readers to take advantage of Windows Hello, these new laptops are built to deliver superior portability in ultra-lightweight designs. The newest LG Gram laptops come in three different screen sizes – the 13.3” and 14.0” models weigh in at a miniscule 940 grams and 970 grams, respectively (that’s around 2.1 pounds each), while the largest model only weighs 1,090 grams (only 2.4  pounds) despite its impressive 15.6” screen. The LG Gram screen is framed by super slim bezels to create a sophisticated, near-edgeless touchscreen that’s great for using Windows Ink to make notes and annotate directly on webpages in Microsoft Edge. With a built-in fingerprint reader that unlocks Windows Hello, you can log in easily and more securely with a scan of your fingerprint in place of memorizing passwords. The 2017 LG Gram models feature a [ more… ]