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Sat.Sep 27, 2014 - Fri.Oct 03, 2014

Are the clouds in the sky rebooting?!

NopSec

OCTOBER 3, 2014

If you are like us at NopSec one of the companies that operators on Amazon AWS cloud, this past couple of days resembled a lot more a perilous path. A series of reboot of the entire Amazon cloud forced us and most AWS-based cloud providers to spend long hours in the office or remotely to make sure things were in order after the reboot. “These updates must be completed by Oct. 1 before the issue is made public as part of an upcoming Xen Security Announcement (XSA),” according to the A

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Exile for the BBC Micro; some elegant solutions

Scary Beasts Security

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

[Prelude: sorry, this has nothing to do with security whatsoever. Feel free to bail now if you're not interested in a classic 1980's game, and rest assured that non-security posts to this blog will remain extremely rare.] The BBC Micro game Exile , released in 1988, has a realistic claim for the best game ever. I lost months of my youth to this game.

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Sat.Sep 27, 2014 - Fri.Oct 03, 2014

Are the clouds in the sky rebooting?!

Exile for the BBC Micro; some elegant solutions

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