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I can neither confirm nor deny that a specific or a general business or businesses I know may or may not still be using Windoze XP. [hic]
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One in five companies does not care about security.
Add it to the pile of plain-text passwords and non-backupped data on someone else's cloud.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Remove the SMEs and those not connected to the interweb and those behind the firewall and the number is meaningless.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Kent Sharkey wrote: If it's not hacked, don't fix it?
Time for Microsoft to release the hacks.
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The Google "Fun Propulsion Labs" team has recently open-sourced FlatBuffers. Built especially to support performance needs of game developers, FlatBuffers stores serialized data in buffers which can be either stored in files or transferred across the network as-is, without any parsing overhead. Google "Fun Propulsion Labs"? I think I just threw up a little in my mouth.
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You know what does a snail say while on the shell of a turtle:
"Yiiiiiiiiiiihaaaaaaaaaaa..."
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who separate humankind in two distinct categories, and those who don't.
"I have two hobbies: breasts." DSK
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Bromium has just published the results of “Endpoint Protection: Attitudes and Opinions,” a survey of more than 300 information security professionals, focused on end user threats and security. 'End users are their biggest security headache.' Nuff said.
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In summary, most of our data, backups, machine configurations and offsite backups were either partially or completely deleted. "If I had a rocket launcher I'd make somebody pay"
Getting really tired of these DDoS thugs.
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The offsite backups were deleted? (or in fact were the tapes blank and not tested?)
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Those too were on the cloud...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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ouch.
That is just a little too trusting of the cloud, me thinks.
TTFN - Kent
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Our own Wong Shao Voon[^] was a customer of CodeSpaces and lost all. A few hours before I read the memo on the home page (as now it's down) and it was clear that they have no off-site backup and the whole thing is gone for good...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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That's a professional failure, an epic one, imho.
How can one ignore basic backup rules, who's in charge of his users' files and/or servers?
No company could survive that; mine couldn't, anyway.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who separate humankind in two distinct categories, and those who don't.
"I have two hobbies: breasts." DSK
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Seeing as their webpage is dead, I had it still open on my tablet from earlier. Here is the text;
Code Spaces : Is Down!
Dear Customers,
On Tuesday the 17th of June 2014 we received a well orchestrated DDOS against our servers, this happens quite often and we normally overcome them in a way that is transparent to the Code Spaces community. On this occasion however the DDOS was just the start.
An unauthorised person who at this point who is still unknown (All we can say is that we have no reason to think its anyone who is or was employed with Code Spaces) had gained access to our Amazon EC2 control panel and had left a number of messages for us to contact them using a hotmail address
Reaching out to the address started a chain of events that revolved arount the person trying to extort a large fee in order to resolve the DDOS.
Upon realisation that somebody had access to our control panel we started to investigate how access had been gained and what access that person had to the data in our systems, it became clear that so far no machine access had been achieved due to the intruder not having our Private Keys.
At this point we took action to take control back of our panel by changing passwords, however the intruder had prepared for this and had already created a number of backup logins to the panel and upon seeing us make the attempted recovery of the account he proceeded to randomly delete artifacts from the panel. We finally managed to get our panel access back but not before he had removed all EBS snapshots, S3 buckets, all AMI's, some EBS instances and several machine instances.
In summary, most of our data, backups, machine configurations and offsite backups were either partially or completely deleted.
This took place over a 12 hour period which I have condensed into this very brief explanation, which I will elaborate on more once we have managed our customers needs.
Data Status
All svn repositories that had the following url structure have been deleted from our live EBS's and all backups and snapshots have been deleted:
https://[ACCOUNT].codesapces.com/svn/[REPONAME]
All Svn repositoies using the following url format are still available for export but all backups and snapshots have been deleted:
https://svn.codespaces.com/[ACCOUNT]/[REPONAME]
All Git repositories are available for export but all backups and snapshots have been deleted
All Code Spaces machines have been deleted except some old svn nodes and one git node.
All EBS volumes containing database files have been deleted as have all snapshots and backups.
Code Spaces Status
Code Spaces will not be able to operate beyond this point, the cost of resolving this issue to date and the expected cost of refunding customers who have been left without the service they paid for will put Code Spaces in a irreversible position both financially and in terms of on going credibility.
As such at this point in time we have no alternative but to cease trading and concentrate on supporting our affected customers in exporting any remaining data they have left with us.
All that we can say at this point is how sorry we are to both our customers and to the people who make a living at Code Spaces for the chain of events that lead us here.
In order to get any remaining data exported please email us at support[at]codespaces.com with your account url and we will endeavour to process the request as soon as possible.
On behalf of everyone at Code Spaces, please accept our sincere apologies for the inconvenience this has caused to you, and ask for your understanding during this time! We hope that one day we will be able to and reinstate the service and credibility that Code Spaces once had!
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Thanks. I'll update that news item with a new location for the newsletter.
TTFN - Kent
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Looking on the "wayback machine" it looks like the site was down on May 17th, not June 17th as claimed. https://web.archive.org/web/*/codespaces.com[^]. Unless, of course, wayback has it's own problems.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Facebook has built its own networking switch and developed a Linux-based operating systems to run it. The goal is to create networking infrastructure that mimics a server in terms of how its managed and configured.
"We're buried in the bunker. Time to break out the Wedge."
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HTML5 took quite a beating a few years back when Facebook dropped it and early studio adopters stumbled, but as a mobile game development platform, it has been quietly making a comeback.
Making a comeback...with simple arcade-style games. Still doesn't compare to native development for complex graphics.
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When they fix the ability to do any type of audio mixing, or add support for mufti-channel audio... maybe.
Until then unless you want to choose between having background audio OR effects, not worth it.
There are some workarounds and frameworks, but they all have serious issues for anything beyond the most simple audio task.
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RAND report says in overall job market, hardest to hire are managers and geeky hackers who can find APTs.
It's like the NSA scene from "Good Will Hunting," except Will says yes and the process repeats 1,000 times.
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Amazon doesn't just sell smartphones anymore — it makes one. In news that should surprise exactly no one, Jeff Bezos has officially unveiled Amazon's first cellphone, the Fire Phone. I'm guessing it will be really easy to buy stuff with?
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It's a 4.7-inch shopping machine that happens to make calls and take pictures.
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Will cloud-dependent software leave anything behind for future historians? "Sunny day. Sweepin' the clouds away."
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JavaScript is getting another option for functional programming, called Ki. Replace all those angle brackets with parens
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