Software Defined Talk

Episode 276: I don’t understand how that works but I want to learn more


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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
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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
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        • Vista Equity Partners Agrees to Buy Software Maker Pluralsight
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