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.

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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

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