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What to Look for in Web Scraping Tools

The internet provides all the information you could ever want, right at your fingertips. While it’s made accessing information—like market research, stock information, and content aggregation to name just a few—much easier, manually grabbing data from websites can still be a daunting, time-consuming task. By investing in web scraping software web scraping software, you can streamline workflows...
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Patch Tuesday Update - January 2024

Fortra VM will include the Microsoft Patch Tuesday checks in the NIRV 4.34.0 and Agent 2.3 releases.Microsoft addressed 49 vulnerabilities in this release, including 2 rated as Critical and 12 Remote Code Execution vulnerabilities.CVE/AdvisoryTitleTagMicrosoft Severity RatingBase ScoreMicrosoft ImpactExploitedPublicly DisclosedCVE-2024-20666BitLocker Security Feature Bypass VulnerabilityWindows...
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ENISA’s New Report Highlights Cyber Investments and Pushes Vulnerability Management

This past November, the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) released its NIS Investments Report 2023, a rundown of how critical EU operators have been investing in cybersecurity pursuant to the NIS Directive. It not only covers how dollars have been spent, but suggest how they ought to be going forward. One particular point of emphasis? Vulnerability management. Vulnerability...
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Streamlining IT Operations: How Automation Can Save Hours and Money

Today’s IT teams can’t do it all. Once only in charge of that “fancy tech stuff”, practitioners today find themselves strapped as it’s all fancy tech stuff now - and business outcomes are intrinsically related to digital outcomes. Simply put, if you’re up on your digital processes, the business moves ahead. If you’re behind, so is business. And when the average cost of IT downtime is $5,600 per...
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Create Chaos to Engineer Security Testing

What is Chaos Testing?Application chaos testing does its best to counteract Murphy’s Law, where anything that can go wrong will go wrong, and at the worst possible time.Chaos testing and engineering is a proactive test methodology that identifies system errors prone to misuse before they can cause damage and security concerns for an application. This style of testing was developed and made...
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Patch Tuesday Update December 2023

It would seem that Microsoft was feeling particularly festive and wanted to give admins around the world a bit of a break this holiday season. This month, we see 36 Microsoft CVEs and six non-Microsoft CVEs for a total of 42 CVEs and eight of those CVEs are Edge (Chromium-based) vulnerabilities that were announced last week.
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Patch Tuesday Update - December 2023

Fortra VM will include the Microsoft Patch Tuesday checks in the NIRV 4.32.0 and Agent 2.2 releases.Microsoft addressed 33 vulnerabilities in this release, including 4 rated as Critical and 8 Remote Code Execution vulnerabilities.CVE/AdvisoryTitleTagMicrosoft Severity RatingBase ScoreMicrosoft ImpactExploitedPublicly DisclosedCVE-2023-36696Windows Cloud Files Mini Filter Driver Elevation of...
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Debunking Popular Myths About Vulnerability Management

“Vulnerability Management” can be a security term that carries a lot of unnecessary weight. The irony is that the right vulnerability management (VM) solutions can actually take the weight off – your security team, your organization, and your other assets. Understanding how means debunking some of the more popular myths around this topic and discovering the truth behind one of security’s most...
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How to Scrape Data from a Website (Tutorial)

Spending too much time going to websites and manually entering data into spreadsheets? While they may seem simple, these types of tasks eat up a great deal of time, and with manual data entry, are incredibly error prone. But with a web scraping tool, you can scrape data from a website, saving your team time and reducing errors. And with the right tool, you won’t need to write a single line of code...
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RPA vs. API: Differences and Use Cases

At its very core, the goal of automation is to take routine, repetitive tasks off the hands of time-strapped employees. Robotic process automation (RPA) solutions are designed to do this, but some lack an important feature that can make simplifying your tasks much harder than it needs to be—API connectivity. In this blog, we’re going to take you through the definition of both RPA and APIs, share...