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AWS Launches Mac Instances
Byte Sized Updates about Containers, Cloud & Tech
Brian Christner
December 02, 2020
An interesting investigation on what happens to files when you deleter or mv them. The article basically walks you through how to recover files by replaying a binary file back to the original file. Lesson learned. Backup your computer!
Very clever. The UK company register recently started accepting special characters in company names. The company in question tested the new naming policy by naming their company an XSS (Cross-Site Scripting) attack. So every time someone clicked the link of their company name, it would execute a script. Luckily, in this case, it was non-malicious, but it goes to show how easy it is to trick people.
This project popped up across my timeline several times today, so I finally dug into it. Opstrace is a monitoring suite. A great feature is that opstrace makes it easy to deploy in your cloud account. Also, data never leaves your network and remains private. The team just launched it, so check it out.
This Tweet unleashed a full-on assault on the O365 team. O365 makes some dashboards available to see the adoption rate of the various O365 services. However, if you put your critical glasses on, it is clear that these features could be used to spy on employee productivity. Microsoft evaluated the feedback and provided an amazing, fast turnaround for reworking how the tool will work going forward. Instead of providing per-employee metrics, it will provide only organization metrics going forward. Well done, Microsoft!
Re-invent is full of so many product launches and features that you start to go numb after a while. However, what really stuck out is the new macOS EC2 instances. Check out the video below of how it came to be
AWS macOS instances
…That’s this week’s theByte newsletter!
-Brian