Proprietary Software and Openwashing
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Hive Ransomware Gang Hits 1,300 Businesses, Makes $100 Million [iophk: Windows TCO]
Active since June 2021 and offered as ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS), Hive has been used in attacks against businesses and critical infrastructure entities, including communications, government, healthcare, IT, and critical manufacturing organizations.
In an effort to increase awareness of Hive ransomware, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have released a joint alert detailing observed indicators of compromise (IoCs) and tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs).
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Amazon's Distributed Computing Manifesto (1998)
You can read the full post on Werner Vogels' (CTO of Amazon) blog, All Things Distributed. The note is short and readable, but here are a few of my own reactions.
The paper begins with a problem that Amazon is facing with its current client-server architecture: applications access the database directly and are tightly coupled with the data model. This makes the application sensitive to changes in the underlying data layer – where and how data is stored.
It proposes two solutions: one, a move towards a service-oriented architecture, and two, to model processes as a workflow.
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AWS Thinkbox open sources Krakatoa MY and XMesh MY [Ed: AWS is proprietary. This is Amazon openwashing its trap by flinging some code at proprietary GitHub (Microsoft)]
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How to Download Your Twitter Archive
Twitter provides a method to download your data that is, in theory, not difficult. It depends on the service functioning, and as of Friday, there were already visible cracks in the infrastructure.
But if all goes well, here’s how you can download your data from Twitter, including your tweets, attached photos and videos, direct messages, likes, lists and Moments.
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Write Windows 11 ISO to USB In Linux with Woe USB-ng - Invidious
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DNSSEC "key tag" or "key ID"?
RFC 4034 defines key tag as an identifier with which a DNSKEY RR containing the public key that a validator can use to verify the signature, but over time I have used the terms key tag and key ID interchangeably, without really knowing where they came from.