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Meet the online content creators beating the odds to build successful careers from their passions. Source:: BBC News – Technology

The ethtool utility on Linux allows you to view and change some of your network-driver and interface-card settings, especially for wired devices. These include their… Read More »Looking at your Linux system’s network interface with ethtool

Tape is definitely not the best choice for primary recovery, but it does have features that make it a credible option for restoring systems and… Read More »Tape backup as a defense vs. ransomware

AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports dynamic instance type selection for Elastic Beanstalk’s environments. This means Elastic Beanstalk will automatically fetch all compatible instance types for… Read More »AWS Elastic Beanstalk supports Dynamic Instance Type Selection

It happens all the time: Organizations get hacked because there isn’t an obvious way for security researchers to let them know about security vulnerabilities or… Read More »Does Your Organization Have a Security.txt File?

Amazon Detective expands security investigation support for Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) and DNS-related findings on Amazon GuardDuty, providing full coverage of all detections from… Read More »Amazon Detective supports S3 and DNS finding types, adds finding details

Amazon Connect Chat now supports passing a customer display name and contact attributes through the chat user interface so you can personalize the chat customer experience.… Read More »Amazon Connect Chat now supports passing a customer display name and contact attributes through the chat user interface

Amazon Redshift data sharing allows you to share live and transactionally consistent data across different Redshift clusters without the complexity and delays associated with data… Read More »Amazon Redshift Cross-Account Data Sharing is now generally available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

Today, we are excited to announce the general availability (GA) of the Amazon GameLift Plug-in for Unity, making it easier to access GameLift resources and… Read More »AWS announces General Availability of the Amazon GameLift Plug-in and AWS CloudFormation Templates for Unity

Waste from the cryptocurrency process is similar to that from IT equipment somewhere like the Netherlands. Source:: BBC News – Technology

Amazon EMR Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) that makes it easy for data scientists and data engineers to develop, visualize, and debug data… Read More »Now authenticate Amazon EMR Studio users using IAM-based authentication or IAM Federation, in addition to AWS Single Sign-On

As a Microsoft Patch Lady, I’ve been patching computers and servers for more than 20 years. We started with a process that wasn’t well planned.… Read More »A penchant for patching: After 20 years, the system’s still a mess

Apple ships the latest iteration of its operating systems for iPads and iPhones today, but some (though not all) of the most enterprise-friendly features won’t… Read More »What’s not coming (yet) in iOS 15/iPadOS 15

Douyin users aged under 14 will be limited to 40 minutes a day on the platform. Source:: BBC News – Technology

We’re excited to announce the availability of the HTTP DDoS Managed Ruleset. This new feature allows Cloudflare customers to independently tailor their HTTP DDoS protection… Read More »How to customize your HTTP DDoS protection settings

Law enforcement agencies in Italy and Spain have dismantled an organized crime group linked to the Italian Mafia that was involved in online fraud, money… Read More »Europol Busts Major Crime Ring, Arrests Over 100 Online Fraudsters

A spam campaign delivering spear-phishing emails aimed at South American organizations has retooled its techniques to include a wide range of commodity remote access trojans… Read More »A New Wave of Malware Attack Targeting Organizations in South America

One of the biggest enterprise additions to iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 is a significant change to Apple’s MDM (mobile device management) protocol. Earlier MDM… Read More »How Apple is changing MDM in iOS 15

For the longest time, single-socket servers were the bottom of the server hierarchy, using “server” chips weaker than what you might find on a desktop.… Read More »Supermicro updates one-socket server line

Google on Friday said it’s bringing an Android 11 feature that auto-resets permissions granted to apps that haven’t been used in months, to devices running… Read More »Google to Auto-Reset Unused Android App Permissions for Billions of Devices