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7 tips for protecting your AWS cloud

iStockPhoto This week disappointing news came from service provider Code Spaces, a company that provided support for devops application management. Code Spaces, which was hosted in Amazon Web Service's cloud, ceased operations. after suffering a distributed denial-of-service attack by a perpetrator who demanded ransom and then began deleting data when company officials logged into their AWS account to stop the attack.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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Katherine the White Shark crashes research site's servers

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