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Reduce Your Attack Surface to Reduce Security Threats The unfortunate truth is that the find-and-patch approach to security is inherently problematic—the attacker is always one step ahead. Reducing your attack surface is a strategy that will help you minimize the number of security threats you are exposed to, whether they are promptly fixed or not. |
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HTML5 November Roundup In this roundup, we learn that a new survey shows developers planning to use more HTML5 in their jobs, Wikipedia is getting an HTML5 video player, and a popular Japanese mobile gaming company is betting on the markup language to boost sales. |
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HTML5 and jQuery: The Light at the End of the Tunnel HTML5 and jQuery are tools that can live on any Internet browser that supports them. They can operate across devices—iPhones, iPads, Galaxies, Blackberrys, etc.—unlike an app that can only work on one device, using possibly only one version of an operating system, before an update is required. |
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Why COBOL Will Never Die Despite the arrival of newer languages and the transition away from mainframes, COBOL has managed to hang around. One reason it can’t die is that there remains a reported 220 billion lines of COBOL code still in use. |
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