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Insured up to $250k. No guarantee there won't be a delay in withdrawing your funds once the Fed takes over.

Right, Talking to some people in the banking industry and the fear is no one know which other banks are in similar situation.

If you are interested in seeing Uranium news from around the world every day and there is a lot happening in the space follow @quakes99 on twitter.

Was on a call with a bank VP that had moved to AWS. Asked how it was going. Said it was going great after six months but just learning about availability zones so they were going t…

"likely" "some", weasel words. Corporate marketing speak for we have no idea what happened so dream up some scenario that sounds plausible and do a press release.

Our services in AWS East are down.

If anyone ever attempts to acquire your company they'll hire a third party to do a software composition analysis audit and look for improperly licensed code reuse. And you'll be sc…

Definitely beta. I installed using dotnet tool install -g --version 2.3.141-beta-g9aa8b4e9b5 Microsoft.CST.AttackSurfaceAnalyzer.CLI None of the CSS components load when launch wit…

Companies purchase cyber insurance for a small fee and avoid risk of paying ransoms directly. Make cyber insurance paying ransoms illegal and you'll see boards start funding IT sec…

Is there any evidence that people who live in areas with better air have better health outcomes overall? Hong Kong average life expectancy is 85. Iceland is 83. Hong Kong has poor …

High availability? Certainly. Elasticity? Not as well. The right lesson is "Be a person that strives for excellence in all spheres of life". I've been doing "Local IT" since '96 an…

What I truly don't get is everyone compares piss poor on-prem servers with premium cloud offerings. Sure, you can screw up on prem. But if you are only marginally competent spinnin…

There are lots of dumb reasons but there are also things like we require Fire Extinguishers in our data centers to get a certificate of occupancy.

This explains why zoom and powerpoint presentations numb your grey matter. A lot of zoom calls don't show hand gestures. PowerPoint is always turning your attention away from the s…

It's bee a couple years but the web browser plugins for BitWarden were unreliable. Our power users made it work but our average office user complained non-stop and moved back to us…

If the primary purpose was to funnel money from you -> .mil -> military industrial complex it succeed wildly beyond all expectations. Otherwise not so much. I lived and worked very…

A contrary perspective... It could be they are using fake numbers but also are effective for some small businesses. I used it for a business and it drove tremendous sales. Everyone…

It seems the older generation is so much more tolerant of toxins than us younger ones. For instance, at company lunches it seems at least 50%+ of the 25-45yrs have allergies/glucos…

Might want to look at https://attack.mitre.org/matrices/enterprise/

I have health issues and I try to correlate cause and effect. I use a rower several times a day, it sits next to my desk. One thing I would love is an API that enables download of …

Wyoming has one of the highest gun ownership rates 59% and one of the lowest murder rates 1 in 100k in the country. Maryland has 21% gun ownership rates, one of the lowest, and the…

oh com'n. As if twitter doesn't allow people to post stupid junk? Multiple accounts that posted "Kill all white women" "Today seems like a good day for another reminder that all re…

The key here is that iMessage collects a device identifier. Apple will cross reference this with everything else on your phone and know more than all the other apps put together.

SemiAccurate thinks no where on the horizon. They have a good track record on these things. See this for example. https://www.semiaccurate.com/2020/11/12/intel-delays-a-mains...

Also this --> Security researcher Vinoth Kumar told Reuters that, last year, he alerted the company that anyone could access SolarWinds’ update server by using the password “solarw…