Essential Ports for DevOps Professionals: Part-01
1. SSH (Secure Shell) — Port 22: - SSH is used for secure remote access to the server. It is required to manage servers, deploy code, and perform various administrative tasks.
*السلام علیکم ورحمتہ اللہ وبرکاتہ*
*Eid Ul Adha Mubarak!*
اَللّٰہُ اَکْبَرُ اَللّٰہُ اَکْبَرُ، لَا اِلٰہَ اِلَّا اللَّہُ وَاللّٰہُ اَکْبَر، اَللّٰہُ اَکْبَرُ وَ لِلّٰہِ الْحَمْدُ
May Allah accept our prayers and sacrifices on this blessed day of Eid Ul Adha.
مسکراؤ
مسکراؤ آگر آج کسی سے ہار گئے ہو
اس جیت کی تم سے زیادہ
ضرورت کسی کو تھی شاید
مسکراؤ اگر کچھ کھو گیا ہے
جس کے نصیب میں تھا
اس کو مل گیا ہے شاید۔۔۔۔
مسکراؤ اگر دل ٹوٹ گیا ہے
کس کا جوڑنے کے لئے
کس کا توڑنا ضروری تھا شاید۔۔۔
Eid Mubarak!
May this Eid bring new opportunities, prosperity, and good health to your life. May your home be filled with joy, your heart with faith, and your life with countless blessings.
Wishing you and your family a wonderful celebration!
Essential Ports for DevOps Professionals: Part-01
1. SSH (Secure Shell) — Port 22: - SSH is used for secure remote access to the server. It is required to manage servers, deploy code, and perform various administrative tasks.
RIP Privacy — AI Glasses Can Now Recognize Anyone, Anywhere.
A Dutch journalist just tested a pair of AI-powered glasses that can instantly identify strangers on the street.
No government database. No police system. Just public data and off-the-shelf AI.
You look at someone and in seconds, their name, LinkedIn, and background appear before your eyes.
The scariest part? You can’t really stop it.
You can ban it, regulate it, add blinking red lights… but once tech like this exists, someone will always find a way to use it.
To me, this marks a turning point.
We’ve officially blurred the line between seeing people and knowing them.
Between being in public and being exposed.
So here’s the question:
When every face becomes a dataset, how do we protect the meaning of being human?
#AI #Privacy #Ethics #Technology #Innovation #Data #Surveillance
⚡️🇮🇱JUST IN:
Israeli-linked spyware company Intellexa, founded by former Israeli intelligence officer Tal Dilian, was exposed for deploying Predator spyware that silently hacks smartphones worldwide. This is what Netanyahu means by: “If you have a phone, you’re holding a piece of Israel.”
Investigations by Haaretz, Inside Story, WAV Research Collective, and Amnesty International reveal that Intellexa used malicious digital ads to infect phones: simply viewing the ad could trigger the attack. Once infected, operators gained full access to the camera, microphone, chats, emails, GPS, photos, files, and browsing history.
Despite Intellexa being sanctioned by the US, they're still operating.
Leaked internal documents and training videos (“Intellexa Leaks”) show that:
➤ Intellexa built “delivery vectors” that trick the phone into opening infection links without the user clicking, creating near–zero-click attacks.
➤ All stolen data was funneled through a hidden “CNC Anonymization Network” to mask the operator.
➤ Intellexa staff kept remote access to government surveillance systems, letting them view live spying operations and victims’ data.
➤ Advertisement-based infection methods (ADINT) are now being developed by multiple spyware firms and used by governments.
Amnesty warns that such silent, ad-driven exploits will expand as people avoid unknown links and true zero-click attacks grow more expensive. Tech companies and ad networks must urgently act to detect and disrupt these attacks.
Breakdown of AWS outage in simple words
1. Sunday night, a DNS problem hit AWS - DynamoDB endpoint lost
2. This meant services couldn't find DynamoDB (a database that stores tons of data).
3. AWS fixed the DNS issue in about 3 hours.
4. But then EC2 (the system that creates virtual servers) broke because it needs DynamoDB to work.
5. Then the system that checks if network load balancers are healthy also failed.
6. This crashed Lambda, CloudWatch, SQS, and 75+ other services - everything that needed network connectivity.
7. This created a chain reaction - servers couldn't talk to each other, new servers couldn't start, everything got stuck
8. AWS had to intentionally slow down EC2 launches and Lambda functions to prevent total collapse.
9. Recovery took 15+ hours as they fixed each broken service while clearing massive backlogs of stuck requests.
This outage impacted: Snapchat, Roblox, Fortnite, McDonald's app, Ring doorbells, banks, and 1,000+ more websites.
This all happened in one AWS region (us-east-1).
This is why multi-region architecture isn't optional anymore.
Oracle cloud gives free kubernetes.
you have to sign up for a oracle cloud free tier account. you get access to "always free services". with oracle kubernetes engine (oke) and with basic cluster option, you can run a free k8s cluster with free compute instances. continue...
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Stating a career in GRC can be challenging, especially when it comes to finding the right learning resources as well as what skills you should focus on first.
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We've released Procmon for Linux, Sysmon for Linux, and SysinternalsEBPF with Azure Linux 3.0 support!
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See what's new on the Sysinternals Blog: https://t.co/R9uvUqTwES