Basic Authentication Credentials Are Encrypted with TLS Calvin Buckley

​You may have heard claims that HTTP “basic” authentication (classic user/password popup prompt or via an API call) leaves credentials unencrypted and exposed. While it’s true that basic auth itself doesn’t encrypt credentials, this doesn’t matter in practice. Modern sites and APIs should be using HTTPS, which encrypts everything over the wire, protecting basic authentication credentials in transit. This article will explain why that’s the case. A quick overview of HTTP authentication The way HTTP authentication works is via standard headers. We recommend the Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) documentation if you want to learn more, but to summarize: when the…
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profound API Logicmate

​In this video Louise takes you through the adaptability pillar of futurised technology and explains how you can untether applications from the limits of legacy code with profound API. Application programming interface is a way for two or more computer programmes or applications to interact with each other, and in the world we live in today applications are more connected than ever before. With web based apps, cloud based services and most importantly mobile applications integrating with more & more of our systems that are not on the same server, APIs are the bridge that make modern, scalable and portable business systems possible. With our partners profound logic software, we can create and deploy APIs in a matter of days on IBM i, and make your development journey surprisingly simple. How? With a fully transparent, highly automated and scalable low code enabling developers to create fully function APIs without writing a single line of code. For more information on these products or for an in depth demo please get in touch with Louise, Business development manager at Logicmate Ltd https://www.linkedin.com/in/louise-eastwood-57973879/ ****************************** LETS CONNECT! Twitter – https://twitter.com/LogicmateL LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/company/logicmate-ltd YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/@UC6sPkub41R_ioAuyP4O6JfA Website – https://www.logicmate.co.uk/From: Logicmate Read More 

FNTS Launches IBM Power Virtual Server Managed Services to Protect, Optimize and Scale Mission-Critical Workloads

​”FNTS ensures peak performance and the most value out of these investments by accelerating time to value with IBM Power Virtual Server Managed Services.”
A scalable, cost-effective method of running IBM AIX, IBM i, and Linux workloads, IBM Power Virtual Server Managed Services from FNTS offer the security and high performance of IBM Power Systems, while allowing organizations to modernize at their own pace and price. Read More 

Security Bulletin: IBM HTTP Server (powered by Apache) for IBM i is vulnerable to HTTP response splitting and denial of service attacks (CVE-2022-37436, CVE-2006-20001)

​IBM HTTP Server (powered by Apache) for IBM i is vulnerable to HTTP response splitting attacks due to a use of malicious backend and a denial of service attack due to an out-of-bounds read or write as described in the vulnerability details section. IBM i has addressed the CVEs by providing fixes to the Apache HTTP Server implementation as described in the Remediation/Fixes section. Read More 

The stratospheric cloud Elizabeth Coles

​Webinar Perspectives on cloud first strategies, mission-critical applications, and the speciality cloud
When Luke Howard woke each morning, he would scan the sky for clouds in all their infinite variety. As an amateur meteorologist, he had good reason to keep such a devoted watch. And his 1803 book, The Modification of Clouds delivered to weathermen everywhere is still the go to for the classification of clouds. But what would he make of the digital cloud terminology of today? Read More 

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