Microsoft releases Sysmon 2.0

Sysmon is a Windows system service and device driver that, once installed on a system, remains resident across system reboots to monitor and log system activity to the Windows event log.

 

It provides detailed information about process creations, network connections, and changes to file creation time.

 

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Convert a ton of file types online with Cloud Convert

Cloud Convert is a free online service that you can use to convert more than 200 different file types. It may sometimes be necessary to convert one file type into another. Maybe you need to convert files so that you can load them on your mobile phone, or make sure they are compatible with a program that you have access to on your local system.

 

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SQL injection vulnerabilities surge to highest levels in three years

After years of steady decline, 2014 witnessed a significant uptick in SQL injection vulnerabilities identified in publicly released software packages. DB Networks research indicates this alarming fact is directly attributed to today’s software development methodology – an emphasis on deadlines and budgets that gives short shrift to the kind of security due diligence that’s more important today than ever before.

 

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Peerio — End-to-End Encrypted Secure Messenger and File Sharing App

On one end, where governments of countries like Russia is criticizing end-to-end encryption and considering to ban the encrypted communication apps like Snapchat, CryptoCat, WhatsApp and Apple’s iMessage. On the other hand, the Internet community has come up with a new and rather more secure encrypted communication app.

Dubbed Peerio, an "encrypted productivity suite" designed to offer much more usable alternative to PGP email and file encryption, so that every individual user and business can encrypt everything from Instant Messages to online file storage.

 

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Quickly Check Any Document For Grammar, Plagiarism And More

PaperRater is a web site that offers a free document scanning service. Just paste the chosen text into the page and hit the Get Report button (remembering to enable the optional "originality detection" feature first), and you’ll get the details in just a few seconds. In addition to the report about the reading level of the document, and the standard of grammar, you’ll also receive details of whether the document is mostly original or whether large sections appear to have been copied from other web sites.

 

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