Amazon has confirmed that three Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and one in Bahrain have been damaged by drone strikes, causing an extensive outage that is still affecting dozens of cloud computing services.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/amazon-drone-strikes-damaged-aws-data-centers-in-middle-east/

It would be ***extremely prudent*** to increase your OT threat posture as an organisation if you are in global or regional logistics, oil and gas, communication, agriculture, etc. Or critical infrastructure in any potentially involved nations.

Haven't found a turn-key solution, but it is possible to generate new Markov chains based on the website the tarpit is protecting.

So if your site is in Saterland Frisian then you will get a tar pit in Saterland Frisian.

https://maurycyz.com/projects/trap_bots/

Hm.. i know there are tarpits for "AI" crawlers, but are there any that are multi lingual or generate non-english gibberish?

Cause, you know, most of the world primarily speak other languages than English.

So the Norwegian Consumer Council has caught on to enshittification. They even made a comedy film / advert about it.

https://www.forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree

Prints available in my store: https://store.falseknees.com/

@someodd well done, an hour downtime is very respectable :)

@catsalad I Am the Very Model of a Modern Cyber Specialist

I am the very model of a modern cyber specialist,
My posture is proactive and my mindset synergist,
I leverage blockchain paradigms resilient and immutable,
For threats that are, in practice, mostly quite disputable.

I’m zero-trust by principle, by strategy, by ritual,
Though flat networks persist beneath my slide deck quite habitual;
I champion quantum readiness, cryptography transitionable,
While SSH keys on our servers stay embarrassingly guessable.

I speak of AI governance, of ethics and alignment,
Of digital transformation in a cloud-first re-assignment;
I orchestrate compliance in a framework interoperable,
Yet patching legacy systems is declared economically implausible.

I circulate an SBOM with enthusiasm evangelical,
Though half the stack was compiled by interns quite mechanical;
I threat-model via workshops with sticky notes galactical,
But tracing actual packet loss I find impractical.

I quantify cyber maturity in gradients holographic,
With heatmaps operationally impressive and chromatic;
I benchmark risk velocity in dashboards most aesthetical,
While incident response remains distinctly hypothetical.

In short, in blockchain-quantum-zero-trust evangelistical,
In AI-driven thought leadership aggressively statistical,
In buzzword transformation visionary and fantastical,
I am the very model of a cyber strategist theatrical.

But when the logs erupt at 3 a.m. with evidence electrical,
I forward them to someone slightly more technical.

- do you want to use google to sign in?
- do you want to add a passkey?
- do you want to add a 2FA token?
- we know you have 2FA but we've sent you an email instead
- this login attempt seems suspicious we've sent you a text about it
- can you click on these buses?
- you failed to click on the buses click on these bicycles instead
- should we save these details for next time?
- do you accept these trackers?
- you can opt out but we've decided it's legitimate interest anyway
- would you like to see a list of our 847 partners we share your data with?
- can we send you desktop notifications?
- can we access your location?
- do you want 10% off for signing up to the mailing list?
- do you want me to translate this page?
- hi I'm your friendly chatbot how can I help?
- oh no you can't buy this, reach out to us for a quote!
- do you want—

I'm tired boss

POLL: Fedi people, do you have a website or blog or personal wiki or some other kind of online Thing That You Control Yourself that other people can find you on that isn't paid for / maintained by someone else, meaning YOUR THING is at a web address like you.whatever, not at you.someonelse.whatever or someoneelse.whatever/you, I mean are you paying the tenner a year or however much for a whole-ass domain name all for yourself (or for you and a small group of IRL friends), and if not do you want to be, THE POLL, and here is the guidance and elaboration on options:

1) No and I don't want my own site, Fedi and/or other social media scratches that itch for me just fine and I'm content with this arrangement

2) No, but I have a Vague Yearning or a Curious Itch and I wonder sometimes what it would be like, but so far it's just feelings and not plans, I haven't taken any concrete steps towards making My Own Website a real thing that exists, but I'm comfortable saying that I would probably *like* it to exist some day when I'm ready

3) No, but more of a Not Yet than a no; maybe I've bought a domain name and not put anything on it yet, or I haven't yet bought a domain name but I'm researching my options (whether I do it in a lazy few minutes here and there or in focused making-notes sort of study, both count for the purposes of this question), I've spent some time thinking about this With Intent, and I feel less "*wouldn't* this be nice" and more "*won't* this be nice" about this endeavour

4) Yes I own at least one domain name, come on Dan this is Fedi, and at least one of my domains even have websites or services associated with them

BOOST THIS TOOT to get an INCREDIBLY INACCURATE IMPRESSION of how many people have and/or want websites and a more accurate picture of how many people On Fedi have and/or want websites

@ifixcoinops
I don't think it is quite what you are after, might be too far the other way from Yunohost, but I've dabbled in cockpit a fair bit and found it suits my needs.

Still hoping the Cool Kids® will have some stuff to share. :)

p.s. For anyone not familiar with Nextcloud, it's this really useful and easy to use free open source platform that lets you run your own cloud services totally under your ownership and control. It lets you replace things like Google Drive etc and has lots of add-ons to give it more services.

Many businesses and public bodies use it when they're trying to de-Google or de-Microsoft, but it's also fine for individuals too.

I did a beginner's guide about it a while ago at: https://growyourown.services/beginners-guide-to-nextcloud/

Not all servers live forever. After their first use in our data center, they eventually move to our Server Auction – tested, ready for use, without setup fee and an affordable price. If that isn’t an option, individual parts are reused or recycled, all handled in-house. This way, every component gets the most out of its life while keeping resources in check.

@ifixcoinops been using their Next cloud offering for a year, big fan.

Also big thanks for mentioning the "Community Document Server" app thing. Haven't had time to sit down and get stuck in (it's been a crazy year) do didn't know that is how it worked. Thought I would have to setup an extra VPS.... And Hetzner support says there is no private network for theNextcloud boxes so would need to use a public internet connection between them which is :ablobthinkingeyes:

Been running a NextCloud setup on a dedicated box for a few years, box has a 500 gig hard drive, my stuff is like 100ish gigs but the disks are nearly full with all the other stuff on the dedicated server, every time I update NextCloud (and NextCloud wants updating A LOT) I rsync the whole data directory and the databases etc over into a new folder and then do the upgrade, I'm now getting to the point where I cannae FIT a backup directory on the server

Plus, plusssss, every time I update NextCloud it's like this whole Procedure that I've got written down in my notes and there's always Anxiety about it and I put it off until I'm several versions behind and that's awful

Anyway Hetzner will give me a TERABYTE of storage with nextcloud already set up and they'll take care of the updates and mirror the data across a bunch of German hard drives and they will do this for four Euros and twenty nine cents a month. I only know about this because I was looking into getting another storage box with them and that was gonna be something like three euros a month so for an extra euro a month I could just Have Them Handle It and, like, I can Handle nextcloud, I know how to keep it running etc, but that is as a small part of everything I do, and for a euro a month I can let that be the job of someone whose Whole Job is this

Anyway I signed up the other day and so far it's bloody hard to grumble about. For document editing you've gotta install "Community Document Server" app and then OnlyOffice on top of that and then it works fine

RE: https://fem.elbarri.online/@raconet/116041856904331069

a warm welcome fediverse welcome to El Raconet, a hackerspace in Alicante, Spain

@oshy ooo, can't wait to sit down and read later then. Just need to deal with *Waves at queue of life stuff shoving to get through the door* first.

Cheers.

@oshy much appreciate the toot, you just gave me a new band to binge listen to!

xD