AWS Launches Mac Instances
Ever nuked a file with mv and thought it was gone forever? This guide shows how to replay the binary and bring it back from the dead. Moral of the story: backups aren’t optional.
Undelete a file overwritten with mv (Linux)
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!
UK Company used XSS vulnerability as company name
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.
Cool new project - opstrace, like Datadog but Open Source
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.
Microsoft walks back privacy feature "Productivity Score"
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!
My top AWS Re-invent announcement: macOS instances
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
