IT
Check if your accounts have been hacked
Another day, another hack. It seems there is another media story every week talking about a site getting hacked and thousands (or millions) of account being compromised. Companies have Information Security teams that track these breaches to protect their users, but how does an average user protect himself? As an average user, you are on your own but there are sites that can help. One of these sites is called haveibeenpwned.com (link) <img src="https://ekiledjian2.micro.blog/uploads/2025/dae5e9461d.jpg" alt=""> You enter your address and the site will check if it was included in any of the breach leaks they track.
What is Metal As A Service (MaaS)
Just when you thought companies could create another blah blah as a service acronym, Canonical has thrown a couple of new letters at us: MaaS. MaaS stand for Metal As A Service and is a metal to server management service created by Canonical (the team behind Ubuntu). In the old days (aka last couple of years) companies went crazy buying the biggest meanest servers they could buy to do all they number crunching and big data analysis. The bigger the company the bigger and more expensive the servers they bought.
Desktop As A Service is cheaper and easier to implement
Having worked in the IT field for close to 20 years now, I am constantly surprised that the biggest pain points for most organizations are still the most basic IT components. One such pain point for companies large and small is desktop management. What should be a commodity easy to manage system is still proving to be a big challenge for most organization. I believe over the next 3-5 years, we will see a huge uptake in Desktop As A Service (DAAS).