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Attackers target IT service desks to bypass MFA by impersonating employees and convincing staff to reset passwords or register new authentication devices. Specops Software explains why traditional identity verification methods are no longer sufficient and how organizations can secure account recovery against social engineering risks. [...]
We have documents that need full-text search, but those documents also have meaningful relationships. Do we split search and graph traversal across two systems or keep them together? Most developers reach for Elasticsearch or a dedicated search service when they need full-text search. It's a reasonable reaction, but it introduces an extra service to operate, an extra data pipeline to maintain, and an extra hop in every query. What's easy to miss is that Neo4j ships with Apache Lucene built in —
Stu created tidy-typography.css: a style reset for taming typography with modern CSS features for everything from fluid typography and vertical rhythm, to hyphens and variable fonts. Taming Typography: Building a Modern CSS Reset originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.
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How much damage can someone do without breaking much? Quite a lot, it seems. A stolen login can open doors across several systems. A trusted setting can be used to lock people out. Even a simple file copy can reach places it shouldn't. And while new tools are helping find security holes faster, some important systems are still taking months, sometimes over a year, to get patched. Not exactly a
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Many organizations adopting data mesh and data products face a common challenge. They may be tasked with building a self-service platform for data products and data mesh from scratch, or they may have an existing platform that suffers from low adoption, preventing their data mesh from scaling. This article provides a platform navigator, based on the CNCF's Platform Engineering Maturity Model, to help you reason about your current situation and determine the next ste
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