2.5 Admins is a podcast featuring two sysadmins called Allan Jude and Jim Salter, and a producer/editor who can just about configure a Samba share called Joe Ressington. Every two weeks we get together, talk about recent tech news, and answer some of your admin-related questions.
2.5 Admins 42: Guru Medication
Fastly’s recent outage, how attackers probably breached the Colonial Pipeline’s network, crypto mining in anti-virus software, and setting up a box at your friend’s house to watch Netflix while abroad.
News
Fastly broke the Internet for an hour
The 503’s heard around the world
Fastly Summary of June 8 outage
Colonial Pipeline Chief Says Recovery From Ransomware Hack Not Complete
Uncle Sam recovers 63.7 of 75 Bitcoins Colonial Pipeline paid to ransomware crew
NortonLifeLock Unveils Norton Crypto
Free Consulting
We were asked about encrypted off-site backups, and getting around geo-restrictions with a VPN.
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