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There are three types of hackers, white, gray, and black hat hackers. And while white hat hackers fall strictly under the cybersecurity category, the line isn’t as clear-cut when it comes to gray and black hat hackers. Read This Article on CloudSavvy IT ›

1Password is among our favorite password managers, and if you also use it, you should enable two-factor authentication (2FA) to add an extra layer of security to your account. Here’s how to enable two-factor authentication in 1Password. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›

JetBrains is taking its TeamCity CI/CD ( continuous integration/continuous delivery ) platform to the cloud, with the introduction of the TeamCity Cloud service. Introduced April 27, after having been beta tested by nearly 5,000 users, TeamCity Cloud is intended for software development teams who want to escape the burden of maintaining their own infrastructure. Based on the original TeamCity CI/CD server, the cloud service integrates with version control systems, issue trackers, IDEs, and cloud providers, with JetBrains taking care of updating build tools and installing security patches. To read this article in full, please click here

API gateways are a response to a key outcome of the microservices  architecture style: the proliferation of services and their interfaces. The core purpose of an API gateway is to simplify and stabilize the interfaces exposed to clients. In addition to this, because of the unique position of an API gateway in the architecture, a variety of add-on benefits are enabled, like monitoring, logging, security, load balancing, and manipulation of traffic. [ Also on InfoWorld: The decline of Heroku ] An API gateway is similar to the Facade design pattern , but applied at the network level. The objective in both cases is to provide a simplified interface profile that hides the complexity of the system. You can see this idea in Figure 1. To read this article in full, please click here

Ask an application or full-stack developer about the types of testing they perform on their applications, and they are likely to report on unit testing, API testing, and hopefully SAST (static application security testing) and other security testing. The QA automation engineers are likely to mention functional test automation, cross-browser and -device testing, mobile app testing, and performance testing. Devops engineers aim to enhance CI/CD (continuous integration/continuous development) pipelines with continuous testing , and SREs focus on the observability of applications and microservices. To read this article in full, please click here

At least two congressional laptops were missing after a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol on Wednesday, and other electronics may also have created vulnerabilities.