Preventing Attacks

Cyber/Physical security reflections, from an MIT Enterprise Forum talk
The only thing the homeowner may notice is a slight slowdown in their Internet connection. But meanwhile, their cable modem or webcam was out bringing down the Internet. This was just one of the scenarios described by David Hobbs at the MIT Enterprise Forum.

How do you keep a high bar of quality on dozens of sites every day?
DevOps is the union of development, operations, and quality assurance -- but it's really the other way around.

Is your website safe from a cyber attack?
As I write, we're in the midst of a big Ransomware attack. Millions of computers have been infected, with their data encrypted, held ransom pending an extortion payment or deleted. Supposedly.

6 things to consider before the next AWS outage
Yesterday Amazon Web Services (AWS) had a major outage in their US-East datacenter, in Virgina. It made all sorts of national news, largely because it affected some major online services.
Ask Freelock: Why haven't you migrated to Drupal 8?
Richard asks:
Just a question after reading an article posted here back from January 21, 2016 on Drupal 8, why Freelock.com has not moved to Drupal 8? Just wondering if there was a particular reason we should avoid before jumping in? Thanks.
Why you need maintenance on your Drupal Site
Yesterday the Drupal security team gave a dire warning about extremely dangerous security vulnerabilities in multiple contributed modules. The fixes, and the details, would be released at 9am Pacific Time today.
Upgrade to Drupal 8? This is our plan for migration
I'm sure many of you reading this may have heard that Drupal 8 has been released, may have even received some marketing emails.
Drupal on Docker, with a pinch of Salt
Faster, more secure, more maintainable. Three nice benefits we get from our new standard Drupal server architecture.
Drupal 8 is around the corner... time to upgrade?
We're starting to recommend Drupal 8 for some new upgrade projects, with the following notes...
How do you rate Maintainability?
Lately at Freelock, we've been improving our Drupal site assessment.
Ask Freelock: Upgrade D6 to Drupal 7, or wait for 8?
Apparently there's some FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt) being sown by a few Drupal shops who are spreading downright wrong information about Drupal 8, trying to encourage people to upgrade to 7 now.

Heartbleed - Do you need to do anything?
Everybody is writing about Heartbleed this week. The reason? It probably affects more people than any other vulnerability we've ever seen. If you ever log into any web site, anywhere, your password might be revealed -- and that is just the start. The biggest problem?