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Episode 276 · December 17th, 2020 · 1 hr 3 mins
About this Episode
This week we discuss the state of virtual events, recent AWS re:Invent Announcements and the SolarWinds Hack. Plus, is YouTube Premium worth it…?
The Rundown
- AWS re:Invent
- AWS CloudShell
- AWS Fault Injection Simulator – Fully managed chaos engineering service
- Amazon Managed Service for Grafana | Fully Managed Grafana Data Visualization
- Our new partnership with AWS gives Grafana users more options
- AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry – Amazon Web Services
- AWS and Zoom Extend Strategic Relationship
- State of Cloud 2018 Report
- Solarwinds
- Russian government spies are behind a broad hacking campaign that has breached U.S. agencies and a top cyber firm
- Solar Winds, probably hacked by Russia, serves White House, Pentagon, NASA
- SolarWinds Exposed FTP Credentials Publicly in a Github Repo
- ~18,000 organizations downloaded backdoor planted by Cozy Bear hackers
- SolarWinds hackers have a clever way to bypass multi-factor authentication
- Hackers at center of sprawling spy campaign turned SolarWinds' dominance against it
- New Evidence Suggests SolarWinds' Codebase Was Hacked to Inject Backdoor
- SolarWinds attack explained: And why it was so hard to detect
- More Hacking Attacks Found as Officials Warn of ‘Grave Risk’ to U.S. Government
- iOS 14.3 now available, here are the new features
Relevant to your Interests
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- Oracle reports slow revenue growth as licensing and hardware businesses decline
- Oracle is moving its headquarters from Silicon Valley to Austin, Texas
- After The US Election, Key People Are Leaving Facebook And Torching The Company In Departure Notes
- New Relic acquires Kubernetes observability platform Pixie Labs – TechCrunch
- AI Algorithms Are Slimming Down to Fit in Your Fridge
- Vista Equity Partners Agrees to Buy Software Maker Pluralsight
- Google's YouTube, Gmail recover after global outage
Nonsense
- ‘Damn Good Taco’ Maker Torchy’s Sells Stake to General Atlantic
- The Office’s Brian Baumgartner to Make $1 Million in 2020 from Cameo Bookings
- AAdvantage program updates − AAdvantage program − American Airlines
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