A recent incident at Amazon US East-1 in Virginia is a good reminder about protecting your data. On August 31st at 4:33 AM the datacenter lost power and the generators kicked in, but at 6:00 AM, the generators started failing. The result of that was that 7%+ of the AWS EC2 instances failed and some […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Most people don’t know what DNS is, but it is almost as old as the Internet and you use it hundreds of times a day, probably thousands of times a day. Every time you check for new email on your phone or browse to a web site, you are using DNS. The Internet uses numeric […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The U.S. Census wants people to respond online because it will save them money. They don’t have to transfer data from paper forms and they don’t have to send census workers out. From a pure finance standpoint, it makes perfect sense. The census will cost us about $15 billion this time around. And, from a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The cloud has become an important part of every companies IT solution. Whether you are using a third party software as a service or building your our solutions in the cloud, the cloud is not risk free. Just ask Capital One if you have any questions about that. So what are the things that you […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Turns out that VxWorks is an extremely popular “real time” operating system or RTOS. RTOSes are used in devices that need to be able to respond to real time events, unlike, say Windows, Linux or MacOS. VxWorks can make sure that say, if an MRI machine is zapping someone with energy in order to create […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I was talking to an Assistant US Attorney (AUSA) last week and he told me that romance scams (where a scam artist cons usually older people out of their life’s savings pretending to be romantically interested in the victim) is the second largest cyber attack reported to the Feds. Given the announcement below, I guess […]
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