Backdoor Definition
A back door is a means of access to a computer program that bypasses security mechanisms. A programmer may sometimes install a back door so that the program can be accessed for troubleshooting or other purposes. However, attackers often use back doors that they detect or install themselves, as part of an exploit. In some cases, a worm is designed to take advantage of a back door created by an earlier attack. For example, Nimda gained entrance through a back door left by ...
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HPE ProLiant BL460c Gen9 Server Blade
HPE ProLiant BL460c Gen9 Server Blade
Are you looking for the right server blade to be your data center workhorse for your demanding core IT and virtualization workloads? Designed for a wide range of configuration and deployment options, the HPE ProLiant BL460c Gen9 Server Blade provides the flexibility to optimize your core IT applications with right-sized storage for the right workload for a lower TCO. All of this is managed by HPE OneView, the converged management platform that acc...
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How to Install SSL Certificate in Windows Server 2012
How to Install SSL Certificate in Windows Server 2012
Like the majority of server systems you will install your SSL certificate on the same server where your Certificate Signing Request (CSR) was created. This is because your private key will always be left on the server system where the CSR was originally created. With Microsoft systems the private key is hidden away and will only appear once the CSR request has been completed. Your SSL certificate will not work without this private key file...
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How to Install and Configure IIS 8 on Windows Server 2012
How to Install and Configure IIS 8 on Windows Server 2012
Introduction
In today's article you will learn how to install and configure IIS8 (Internet Information Services 8) on Windows Server 2012.
Step 1
First of all Login to your Windows Server 2012 as Administrator by entering your password. As you logged on your Server Manager will open automatically, if it doesn't open then open it by clicking on the first button in the task bar.
As you open the Server Manager this win...
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How to Install Active Directory On Windows Server 2008 R2
How to Install Active Directory On Windows Server 2008 R2
How to Install Active Directory On Windows Server 2008 R2: Active Directory is essential to any Microsoft network built on the client-server network model–it allows you to have a central sever called a Domain Controller (DC) that does authentication for your entire network. Instead of people logging on to the local machines they authenticate against your DC. Lets take a look at how to install Microsoft’s Active Directory.
Installa...
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Configuring Direct SAN backups in Veeam B&R for VMware vSphere
Configuring Direct SAN backups in Veeam B&R for VMware vSphere
This is a very frequent topic for me and I always get questions from customers and partners about it… so I thought: “let’s make this a blog post!” ?
Background
Generally, when designing backup infrastructures, it is preferable to set up a direct connection between the data mover (“Backup Server” or “Proxy”, in Veeam terminology) and the production storage where your data resides. This is commonly referred to as “LAN-Free” ...
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EMC Announces AppSync 1.5
EMC Announces AppSync 1.5
Today EMC announced version 1.5 of their AppSync data protection software for the VNX storage platform. The software provides application-consistent data protection for applications running on VNX, regardless of whether they’re running on physical or virtual servers. AppSync provides an application-centric point of view and uses the native APIs of both VNX and RecoverPoint to deliver user-definable levels of protection to the applications.
How It’s Deployed
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The Great Community Experiment, While Successful, Draws to a Close
The Great Community Experiment, While Successful, Draws to a Close
If you follow me on Twitter, or have received email from my personal account, you’ve seen my tagline: “Social Media Mad Scientist”. I do think of myself that way. I really enjoy experimenting with it, trying new things to find out what works.
Now, social media is new enough that — technically — we’re all really experimenting just by participating in it, but I like to play with the edges of things, figure out the controls,...
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EMC Announces XtremSW Cache 2.0
EMC Announces XtremSW Cache 2.0
Today EMC announced the availability of version 2.0 of their XtremSW Cache product.
XtremSW Cache is EMC’s intelligent caching software. It allows storage admins to extend EMC’s FAST (Fully-Automated Storage Tiering) capabilities to server Flash. Doing so improves application performance by providing accelerated reads. Today, XtremSW Cache provides write-through caching (write-back caching is on the roadmap, but won’t be available in 2013).
Version 2.0 ...
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EMC Announces Next-Generation VNX – Takes It Full Multicore
EMC Announces Next-Generation VNX – Takes It Full Multicore
Today EMC announced the availability of the next generation of their VNX unified storage platform, previously codenamed “Rockies”. The new platform — actually available for purchase for the past month or so — which some are calling “VNX2”, offers a significant performance increase over the previous generation. Rather than VNX2, EMC refers to this generation as “MCx”, which stands for “Multi-Core Optimized”.
Virtualization as a Stora...
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