2.5 Admins 99: 00000000

A PSA about cheap hard drives, a major Internet outage in Canada, Apple’s new Lockdown Mode, and hostnames and DNS.

 

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PSA: buyer beware on “WaterPanther” drives

Canadian ISP Rogers falls over for hours, takes out broadband, cable, cellphones

Rogers restores service for ‘vast majority’ of customers after massive outage

Rogers outage points to need for greater oversight of critical industry
After massive Rogers outage, Government of Canada to force telecoms to help each other in emergencies

Apple expands commitment to protect users from mercenary spyware

Why Lockdown mode from Apple is one of the coolest security ideas ever

 

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