Day: November 22, 2022

Brute force attacks are an attempt by a user to gain access to an account or system by constantly entering credentials, either manually or automatically.

 The objective of the breach is to discover passwords to enter accounts or find hidden links and get hold of confidential data.

OTT (Over-the-top) content platforms have become a part of entertainment today. 

Due to the pandemic and lockdown, OTT platforms have become popular among consumers seeking home entertainment. Most of the major media companies have become a part of the OTT platform. 

Caching is a strategy that can help you conserve resources and improve performance. When you have an oft-run expensive query with a result that seldom changes, caching is an ideal solution. By caching the result of that query, you can return the cached result when necessary. The result is the same, but you save the need to run the expensive query. Everybody wins.

In this article, we will walk through the use of Salesforce Functions to cache expensive queries. For instance, we want to query for some value across a large number of records, and the page requiring this query is often loaded. However, the result will not change from one query execution to the next.

WordPress is the world’s most popular content management system, used by over 40% of all websites. This wide adoption makes it a top target for threat actors and security researchers that get paid for reporting security issues through their public bug bounty program. 

Vulnerability brokers are also very interested in acquiring unpatched vulnerabilities enabling them to take over WordPress instances, sometimes offering up to $300,000 for critical ones. As such, WordPress has a heavily reviewed code base in which researchers are not expected to find low-hanging fruits anymore. My previous research on this target required extensive expertise and effort to uncover security issues. 

This is an article from DZone's 2022 Performance and Site Reliability Trend Report.

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Site reliability engineering aims to keep servers and services running with zero downtime. However, outages and incidents are inevitable, especially when dealing with a complex system that constantly gets new updates. Every company has a relatively similar process to manage incidents, mitigate risks, and analyze root causes. This can be considered an opportunity to identify issues and prevent them from happening, but not every company is successful at making it a constructive process.