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Though the level of fear of Covid 19 has diminished, there are other fears surrounding the 2022 Olympic games. Fears of telecom disruptions and ransomware attacks are founded, and the damage that could be caused has increased with the reliance on technology to broadcast the Games, which kicks off on February 4. Organizers are preparing for the kind of cyberattack that temporarily paralyzed IT systems ahead of the official opening ceremonies of the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in South Korea.

The SURGe team at Splunk is always exploring new methods and tools to make our lives easier. Today we’d like to share some of that work with you. Before we dive into the what and how, I’d like to briefly explain the why.

CAPTCHA and reCAPTCHA are an ever-present component on any website that requires user interaction. But the risks of embedding CAPTCHA/reCAPTCHA plugins on a website can outweigh the benefits. Flawed code can increase the threat of client-side attacks. Who hasn’t encountered a CAPTCHA?

A container is defined as packaged software that contains all the code and dependencies of an application within a virtual environment so that the application can be migrated from any computing device to another. Docker container images are executable software packages that are lightweight and standalone.

In this modern world of fast-moving technology and handheld devices, it seems impossible to function properly without access to wireless internet. People all over the world from all walks of life rely on this wireless communication or Wi-Fi to complete their daily tasks and goals. From entertainment to business all things are done with the help of the wireless internet.

CIFS (Common Internet File System) is a network protocol that allows clients to communicate with servers and access file sharing and print services as if they were stored locally. The CIFS protocol is a particular implementation -- or dialect-- of the file-sharing protocol SMB (Server Message Block). The Server Message Block protocol was released by IBM in 1983 that has since undergone several modifications to its functionality by Microsoft.

CIFS and SMB are both Windows file-sharing protocols used in storage systems, such as network-attached systems (NAS). The key difference between CIFS and SMB is that CIFS is a dialect of SMB – a particular implementation of the SMB protocol. The CIFS protocol is now considered an outdated SMB dialect, with the newer SMB 2.0 and SMB 3.0 addressing many of the inefficiencies of CIFS.