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Proprietary Software Leftovers

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 02, 2022

Programming Leftovers

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ConnectWise Quietly Patches Flaw That Helps Phishers

↺ ConnectWise Quietly Patches Flaw That Helps Phishers

> ConnectWise, which offers a self-hosted, remote desktop software application that is widely used by Managed Service Providers (MSPs), is warning about an unusually sophisticated phishing attack that can let attackers take remote control over user systems when recipients click the included link. The warning comes just weeks after the company quietly patched a vulnerability that makes it easier for phishers to launch these attacks.

Major password manager LastPass suffered a breach — again

↺ Major password manager LastPass suffered a breach — again

> LastPass, a major password manager, says it has suffered its second breach in three months by the same unauthorized party.

Red Hat lowers barriers to hybrid cloud adoption with expanded AWS Marketplace offerings

↺ Red Hat lowers barriers to hybrid cloud adoption with expanded AWS Marketplace offerings

> Red Hat has announced an expansion of its open solutions that are publicly available in the AWS Marketplace, including Red Hat OpenShift Data Science and Red Hat OpenShift Streams for Apache Kafka. AWS customers can now use committed AWS spend to purchase and run Red Hat offerings directly through the AWS Marketplace.

From Zero to 50 Million Uploads per Day: Scaling Media at Canva

↺ From Zero to 50 Million Uploads per Day: Scaling Media at Canva

> In designing the migration process, we needed to migrate all old, newly created, and updated media to DynamoDB. But we also sought to shed load from the MySQL cluster as soon as possible. We considered numerous options for replicating data from MySQL to DynamoDB, including: [...]

Microsoft Office in trouble in Germany due to GDPR

↺ Microsoft Office in trouble in Germany due to GDPR

> Microsoft’s suite of productivity apps, Microsoft 365, is in hot water with German authorities due to an alleged incompatibility with the data protection laws of Germany and the rest of the European Union.

> Microsoft has been in negotiations with Germany’s state and federal data protection authorities since 2020 about the compatibility of its 365 utility with the EU’s data protection laws. According to a report written by the Datenschutzkonferenz (DSK), Microsoft is still in breach of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

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