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

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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• 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
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• AAdvantage program updates − AAdvantage program − American Airlines
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