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Streamline Your ASP.NET Logging with ELMAH without a Database

Perficient

JANUARY 15, 2024

In the world of ASP.NET development, logging is a crucial aspect of building robust and reliable applications. With the right logging tool, developers can easily track and analyze errors, exceptions, and other critical information that can help improve application performance and maintainability. Why Choose ELMAH?

Applications

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CVE-2021-44228: Proof-of-Concept for Critical Apache Log4j Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Available (Log4Shell)

Tenable

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Critical vulnerability in the popular logging library, Log4j 2, impacts a number of services and applications, including Minecraft, Steam and Apple iCloud. If the vulnerable server uses log4j to log requests, the exploit will then request a malicious payload over JNDI through one of the services above from an attacker-controlled server.

Applications

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Structured Logging That Makes Everybody Happy

Xebia

MARCH 2, 2021

This definition, borrowed from control theory, infers that metrics, tracing, and logging are key topics to be implemented in your software system. In this blog post, I will focus on getting the most benefits from your logging. Fortunately, I have never been in any environment where there was no logging implemented at all.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

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Simplifying Data Management with Amazon S3 Lifecycle Configuration

Perficient

JUNE 6, 2023

In this blog post, we will explore the steps involved in setting up S3 Lifecycle Configuration, enabling you to streamline your data management workflow and save costs in the long run. Step 1: Access the Amazon S3 Management Console To begin, log in to your AWS account and access the Amazon S3 Management Console.

Storage

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The GitHub Actions Worm: Compromising GitHub Repositories Through the Actions Dependency Tree

Prisma Clud

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Get an in-depth look at the attack vectors, technical details and a real-world demo in this blog post highlighting our latest research. Reference a tag. Figure 8: Calling an action using a tag We can use the secrets exfiltrated in the flow to infect the repository with malicious code. Reference a commit hash. Reference a branch.

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CVE-2023-48788: Critical Fortinet FortiClientEMS SQL Injection Vulnerability

Tenable

MARCH 14, 2024

Critical At the time this blog was published, Fortinet’s advisory assigned a CVSSv3 score of 9.3 This blog will be updated to reflect the correct CVSSv3 score if the advisory or NVD record are updated. At the time this blog was published, Fortinet’s advisory did not include any messaging about known exploitation of this vulnerability.

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Converting a Uniform Arrayed JSON Response to CSV Format in Postman

Perficient

APRIL 11, 2023

The audience for the blog: Before we get into the topic, let’s first just understand the ideal audience and purpose for the engagement: If you want to convert an API response that is in array format and has a consistent structure into CSV format to retrieve it in a console log, this blog is for you. data // Here “.data”

Testing

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Measurement: What SaaS platform builders need to know to prepare for growth, Part 3

CloudGeometry

MARCH 22, 2022

In this blog series, we explore how these three dimensions figure into key technical recommendations which enable scale in pursuit of SaaS business growth. Monitoring and Logging Understanding system health, and what interventions might be required, is not a new problem. Here is a quick gauge (less than 5 minutes!)of

Metrics

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Metadata Management and Data Governance with Cloudera SDX

Cloudera

JANUARY 26, 2024

This will allow a data office to implement access policies over metadata management assets like tags or classifications, business glossaries, and data catalog entities, laying the foundation for comprehensive data access control. View and access entities that are classified with tags related to “finance.”

Government

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Why Google Tag Manager exists?

MagmaLabs

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutes Google Tag Manager (also known as GTM) is a free tag management solution provided by Google. Through this online tool, you can reply and manage various marketing and analytics tags on a website or mobile app. So, why Google Tag Manager exists? Finally, here it is when Google Tag Manager (aka.

Marketing

Marketing Analytics Windows Strategy

Our Latest Open Source Innovation, Yor: Automated IaC Tag and Trace

Palo Alto Networks

MAY 27, 2021

Sifting through logs and pulling up an organizational chart are the last things you have time to do, but in order to track down the right team to help address the issue, that’s your only means. Tags can simplify operational tasks, cost allocation, access control, automation and risk management. Fine-Grained Attribution and Tracing.

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Improved Alerting with Atlas Streaming Eval

Netflix Tech

APRIL 27, 2023

The internals here are outside the scope of this blog post. In addition, we are able to use Atlas Streaming to monitor and alert on some very high cardinality use-cases, such as metrics derived from free-form log data. Once an anomaly is found, we query the logs backend with the fingerprint hash to obtain the exemplar stacktrace.

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Metadata Management & Data Governance with Cloudera SDX

Cloudera

MARCH 4, 2024

This will allow a data office to implement access policies over metadata management assets like tags or classifications, business glossaries, and data catalog entities, laying the foundation for comprehensive data access control. View and access entities that are classified with tags related to “finance.”

Government

Government Data Policies Banking

How to Dynamically Customize Your AEM Component Toolbar

Perficient

JANUARY 31, 2023

In the example below, the condition to check for is whether the logged in author should have access to all the edit actions allowed for a component or just a subset of the default actions. More details on this tag can be found in the Adobe documentation. Once again, you can add this logic in your component’s Sling model’s init() method.

How To

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Build a Decentralized Web Chat in 15 Minutes

David Walsh

MARCH 25, 2019

textContent += message + "n"; } </script> </head> <body> <pre id="log"></pre> </body> <script> log("Hello world!"); / ** Your code goes here! **/ </script> </html> Go ahead and save the snippet above into a file called index.html and then open that file in your web browser.

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Generic ListItem in React Native using TypeScript

Xebia

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

In this blog I’ll demonstrate how TypeScript can help to create FlatLists with generic list items. Else TypeScript will show the following error: Parsing error: JSX element ‘ItemT’ has no corresponding closing tag. Clicking on a ListItem will result in a log in the console. Thanks for reading my blog!

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Import Data From Merlin to Finish Your Migration to Sitecore

Perficient

JUNE 26, 2023

I did not add all the necessary fields for an actual blog article (date, author, etc). In our example, we start by importing categories then importing the blogs. Be sure to add some of your own logging into your script. In this example, I used the default SXA Page template. Merlin gave each category a GUID.

Quality Assurance

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Microsoft’s March 2023 Patch Tuesday Addresses 76 CVEs (CVE-2023-23397)

Tenable

MARCH 14, 2023

9 Critical 66 Important 1 Moderate 0 Low Update March 14: This blog has been updated to reflect the correct title for CVE-2023-23397 as well as new information from Microsoft regarding the in-the-wild exploitation of this flaw. On March 14, Microsoft published a blog post regarding the discovery of this vulnerability.

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How to update your repository from a gitlab pipeline

Xebia

APRIL 18, 2023

Updating documentation In one of my previous blogs I wrote on how you can manage diagrams as code. The approaches that I often is that you tag the container as latest and trigger a redeployment. And as a bonus you can use your git history as an audit log. I did, a couple of times actually! Creating a commit from CI on GitLab.

How To

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GitHub Actions: running them securely

Xebia

DECEMBER 9, 2023

You can check whether it is sending your environment variables over to their own API for example, or logging your OS information together with your IP-address. The source of every action is public, which also means that you can look at the action repository and verify what it is doing when it runs. What are the risks?

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Part 1: An Angular Jamstack Site with Dynamic Data Using Sanity.io

Netlify

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

There is a whole blog post on creating this template too! First, we install the Netlify CLI globally (if we don’t already have it installed) and log in (unless we’re already logged in). project dashboard](/img/blog/sanity-project-dashboard.jpg "Sanity.io Let’s get it started in here!

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Manage and Authenticate Users with Netlify Identity

Netlify

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Keep an eye on the blog and on Twitter for each feature! Leveraging the open-source GoTrue API , Netlify Identity can be added to your site with the Netlify Identity widget by adding this tag: then including the widget in the site template, like so: Login with Netlify Identity.

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Manage and Authenticate Users with Netlify Identity

Netlify

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Keep an eye on the blog and on Twitter for each feature! Leveraging the open-source GoTrue API , Netlify Identity can be added to your site with the Netlify Identity widget by adding this tag: then including the widget in the site template, like so: Login with Netlify Identity.

Authentication

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How to make your web application more secure by using Interactive Application Security Testing (IAST) – PART 3 of Application Security Testing series

Xebia

JUNE 19, 2023

Introduction Welcome to part three of the blog series about Application Security Testing. In this blog we are going to learn about Interactive Application Security Testing (IAST). We will look at their SCA solution in a later blog. Once logged in click on “Applications” and the name of the vulnerable application we just tested.

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Building Netflix’s Distributed Tracing Infrastructure

Netflix Tech

OCTOBER 19, 2020

In our previous blog post we introduced Edgar, our troubleshooting tool for streaming sessions. If we had an ID for each streaming session then distributed tracing could easily reconstruct session failure by providing service topology, retry and error tags, and latency measurements for all service calls. What’s next?

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Let’s Flink on EKS: Data Lake Primer

OpenCredo

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The first part of this blog is related to the Flink and S3 infra design. This blog is written exclusively by the OpenCredo team. Here at OpenCredo we love projects that are based around Kafka and/or Data/Platform Engineering; in one of our recent projects, we created an open data lake using Kafka, Flink, Nessie and Iceberg.

Data

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CVE-2022-22972: VMware Patches Additional Workspace ONE Access Vulnerabilities (VMSA-2022-0014)

Tenable

MAY 18, 2022

FW Blocks + Tags available to all users and customers now. At the time this blog post was published, there were no public PoC exploits for either of the flaws addressed in VMware’s VMSA-2022-0014 advisory. A list of Tenable plugins covering the CVEs outlined in this blog can be found here. Proof of concept. Get more information.

Authentication

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Five Ways A Modern Data Architecture Can Reduce Costs in Telco

Cloudera

JUNE 27, 2023

By using ML to analyze data from call centers, chat logs, and social media, they can create personalized interactive voice response (IVR) messages, de-escalating high-intensity interactions and providing a tailored customer experience. The post Five Ways A Modern Data Architecture Can Reduce Costs in Telco appeared first on Cloudera Blog.

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Automated Deployment of CDP Private Cloud Clusters

Cloudera

JUNE 15, 2021

This blog will walk through how to deploy a Private Cloud Base cluster, with security, with a minimum of human interaction. cloudera_manager_options: CUSTOM_BANNER_HTML: "Cloudera Blog Deployment Example". We can run the playbook in stages using some specific tags , or just run the whole thing end to end. Running the playbook.

Cloud

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CVE-2020-0688: Microsoft Exchange Server Static Key Flaw Could Lead to Remote Code Execution

Tenable

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

If this sounds familiar, it’s because we recently blogged about an improper input validation vulnerability in Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services that also involved serializing untrusted data through the VIEWSTATE parameter.). In their blog, the ZDI shared a YouTube video demonstrating exploitation of this flaw. ASP.NET_SessionId.

Authentication

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How Kentik Helps Assess AWS Visibility

Kentik

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

This summer, Kentik extended our analytics platform to support visibility within public cloud environments via VPC Flow Logs. Review: Why VPC Flow Logs? With an increasing amount of requests from cloud adopters looking to monitor traffic in their VPC, Amazon, Google and Microsoft have all supported a Flow Logs feature.

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One Big Cluster Stuck: The Right Tool for the Right Job

Cloudera

JUNE 26, 2023

We highly recommend that you have alerts enabled across your cluster components to notify your operations team of failures and to provide log entries for troubleshooting. The post One Big Cluster Stuck: The Right Tool for the Right Job appeared first on Cloudera Blog. Visit our Data and IT Leaders page to learn more.

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Deploy a Clojure web application to AWS using Terraform

CircleCI

JUNE 27, 2019

This is the third blog post in a three-part series about building, testing, and deploying a Clojure web application. This blog was tested using version V0.12.2. You will want to tear down the infrastructure once you’ve finished and I’ll show you how to do that in this blog. Now tag your change as 0.1.1 m "v0.1.1". $

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Creating an Angular Jamstack Blog

Netlify

JULY 14, 2020

A blog is a great place to share the inside scoop on your new features with your users or bring new eyes to your site with interesting content. Scully , the Angular Static Site Generator, makes it easier to create a blog using Markdown and the Angular framework we’re familiar with. generate a blog skeleton. Build a Blog.

Software Review

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KubeCon EU 2023: Themes, Talks, and (Movie) Trailers

Daniel Bryant

APRIL 10, 2023

Please come and find us to learn more about Envoy Gateway , Emissary-ingress , Telepresence , or TAG Contributors ! TAG Contributor Strategy: What We Get Out of It (and You Could Too!) (16:30–17:05, TAG CS members share how giving back has shaped their careers, advanced their skills, and grown their own communities.

Case Study

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Microsoft’s June 2021 Patch Tuesday Addresses 49 CVEs (CVE-2021-31955, CVE-2021-31956 and CVE-2021-33742)

Tenable

JUNE 8, 2021

Windows Common Log File System Driver. Windows Event Logging Service. Discovery of the vulnerability is credited to Clément Lecigne of Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG). Microsoft Windows Codecs Library. Role: Hyper-V. Visual Studio Code - Kubernetes Tools. Windows Bind Filter Driver. Windows Cryptographic Services.

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Scheduling Amazon DynamoDB Backups with Lambda, Python, and Boto3

Linux Academy

APRIL 13, 2019

First, it grants the ability to log to CloudWatch Logs. statements will display in CloudWatch Logs. Click Next: Tags. Verify the scheduled backup job ran using CloudWatch Logs. The Log Group will be named /aws/lambda/BackupDynamoDB. This statement grants two sets of permissions. Click Review Policy.

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Recruiting Software Developers – Coding Tests

Henrik Warne

APRIL 18, 2021

In one case the input was lines from a log file. Another feature in Leetcode that I really liked is that each problem is tagged with companies that have used that problem in interviews recently. There is also a good blog post I found that talks about various Leetcode problems: Passing Your Senior Engineering Coding Interview.

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June Changelog: What's New at Netlify

Netlify

JULY 5, 2021

Read the blog. Improved audit logs for changes to build settings. You might have noticed changes to how build settings are displayed in the team audit log. If you’re not sure whether this applies to you, you can check your build logs. Try out new Gatsby Functions on Netlify with the Essential Gatsby plugin! Learn more.

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Introducing Cloud Playground: Even More Hands-On Training Features

Linux Academy

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

You’ll notice that server action logs detail everything that the Cloud Playground platform is doing when spinning up your server. Upgraded interface and server logs. Server Deletion Notifications & Tagging. One of our biggest requests was the ability to tag/label a server instead of using a pre-built list of terms.

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Snowflake Best Practices for Data Engineering

Perficient

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Using Query Tag: When starting a multi-step conversion task, set the session query tag using ALTER SESSION SET QUERY_TAG = “XXXXXX” and ALTER SESSION UNSET QUERY_TAG. Each SQL statement (and QUERY_TAG) is logged in the QUERY_HISTORY view, allowing you to track job performance over time.

Data Engineering

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AWS Developer Tools Overview and CodeCommit Cheat Sheet

Linux Academy

JUNE 4, 2019

So, hold my beer and keep calm while you read this blog because the ramp-up to these tools can be pretty quick. Lists recent commits in the local repo: git log. TagsLists all tags in the local repo: git tag. Pulls all tags from the CodeCommit repository to the local repo: git fetch --tags.

AWS

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Hacking Kubernetes on AWS (EKS) from a Mac

OpenCredo

OCTOBER 29, 2020

After a lot of searching which turned up little information, this blog post serves as an answer to anyone else needing or wanting to achieve the same thing. docker tag k8s.gcr.io/pause:3.2 Re-tag to the correct location and then push the images into ECR. kubectl -n kube-system logs --tail -1 -l component=kube-controller-manager.

AWS

AWS Software Review Linux Testing

Cortex XDR Further Extends Network Visibility and Endpoint Control

Palo Alto Networks

APRIL 22, 2020

With Cortex XDR, you can: Hunt for threats or further investigations by exploring network traffic logs. MITRE ATT&CK Tagging for Alerts and BIOC Rules. Alert and Log Forwarding from Cortex XDR . The post Cortex XDR Further Extends Network Visibility and Endpoint Control appeared first on Palo Alto Networks Blog.

Network

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Streamline Your ASP.NET Logging with ELMAH without a Database

CVE-2021-44228: Proof-of-Concept for Critical Apache Log4j Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Available (Log4Shell)

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Trending Sources

Structured Logging That Makes Everybody Happy

Webinars

Simplifying Data Management with Amazon S3 Lifecycle Configuration

The GitHub Actions Worm: Compromising GitHub Repositories Through the Actions Dependency Tree

CVE-2023-48788: Critical Fortinet FortiClientEMS SQL Injection Vulnerability

Converting a Uniform Arrayed JSON Response to CSV Format in Postman

Measurement: What SaaS platform builders need to know to prepare for growth, Part 3

Metadata Management and Data Governance with Cloudera SDX

Why Google Tag Manager exists?

Our Latest Open Source Innovation, Yor: Automated IaC Tag and Trace

Improved Alerting with Atlas Streaming Eval

Metadata Management & Data Governance with Cloudera SDX

How to Dynamically Customize Your AEM Component Toolbar

Build a Decentralized Web Chat in 15 Minutes

Generic ListItem in React Native using TypeScript

Import Data From Merlin to Finish Your Migration to Sitecore

Microsoft’s March 2023 Patch Tuesday Addresses 76 CVEs (CVE-2023-23397)

How to update your repository from a gitlab pipeline

GitHub Actions: running them securely

Part 1: An Angular Jamstack Site with Dynamic Data Using Sanity.io

Manage and Authenticate Users with Netlify Identity

Manage and Authenticate Users with Netlify Identity

How to make your web application more secure by using Interactive Application Security Testing (IAST) – PART 3 of Application Security Testing series

Building Netflix’s Distributed Tracing Infrastructure

Let’s Flink on EKS: Data Lake Primer

CVE-2022-22972: VMware Patches Additional Workspace ONE Access Vulnerabilities (VMSA-2022-0014)

Five Ways A Modern Data Architecture Can Reduce Costs in Telco

Automated Deployment of CDP Private Cloud Clusters

CVE-2020-0688: Microsoft Exchange Server Static Key Flaw Could Lead to Remote Code Execution

How Kentik Helps Assess AWS Visibility

One Big Cluster Stuck: The Right Tool for the Right Job

Deploy a Clojure web application to AWS using Terraform

Creating an Angular Jamstack Blog

KubeCon EU 2023: Themes, Talks, and (Movie) Trailers

Microsoft’s June 2021 Patch Tuesday Addresses 49 CVEs (CVE-2021-31955, CVE-2021-31956 and CVE-2021-33742)

Scheduling Amazon DynamoDB Backups with Lambda, Python, and Boto3

Recruiting Software Developers – Coding Tests

June Changelog: What's New at Netlify

Introducing Cloud Playground: Even More Hands-On Training Features

Snowflake Best Practices for Data Engineering

AWS Developer Tools Overview and CodeCommit Cheat Sheet

Hacking Kubernetes on AWS (EKS) from a Mac

Cortex XDR Further Extends Network Visibility and Endpoint Control

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