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Sep 16, 2022

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As of this morning, Uber has the following positions open: Senior Security Engineer - Application Security Security Engineer - Penetration Testing Security Engineer II Security Incident Commander II T...

BRING YOUR OWN JOKE: Uber Has Many Openings in IT Security

Figma to Be Discontinued

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Sep 15, 2022

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Adobe (NASDAQ: ADBE) today announced they are acquiring popular online design tool Figma for $20 billion (yes, you read that correctly) in order to bury it in the same mass grave alongside the bodies...

Have You Ever Beaten the Greatest Computer Game of All Time?

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Sep 14, 2022

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Like many readers, I've "beaten" a variety of computer games over the years, from 4X strategy games (Civilization VI, Master of Orion) to role-playing games (Fallout, Skyrim) to everything in between....

Have You Ever Beaten the Greatest Computer Game of All Time?

Vultr is Taking Over India! Two New Locations in Bangalore and Delhi!

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Sep 12, 2022

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Vultr is tripling down on India with a continued focus on international growth. The expansion marks Vultr’s 25th global point of presence, and their fourth in Asia, already having a datacenter in Mumbai and now adding two more locations!

Vultr is Taking Over India! Two New Locations in Bangalore and Delhi!

Have You TrieId Northflank? Microservices Platform with a Free Tier!

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Sep 06, 2022

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I have not, but maybe you have. If so, please comment and let us know what you think. I just stumbled across them while browsing tonight and when I saw free tier I knew I had to write it up for the...

Have You TrieId Northflank? Microservices Platform with a Free Tier!

Abundance of Caution: If You are a MXroute Customer, Take Action

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Sep 06, 2022

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In a textbook example of good customer service and proper crisis management (even though this is no crisis), MXroute founder and former LowEndTalk administrator @jar disclosed the following: Github's...

Abundance of Caution: If You are a MXroute Customer, Take Action

LowEndTalk Launches Review and Pioneer Programs!

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Sep 04, 2022

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The LowEndNetwork today announced two new programs: LowEndReviews and LowEndPioneers. LowEndReviews will pay LowEndTalk community hard cash to review our Patron Providers and community advertisers. Th...

LowEndTalk Launches Review and Pioneer Programs!

Create Jaw-Dropping Dashboards Using Grafana (on a Raspberry Pi!)

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Sep 03, 2022

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Recently, my family acquired a gecko. A crested gecko, to be specific. Our little guy started life as a classroom pet. He came in a rather sad, small Walmart Pet Department-level terrarium. We set...

Create Jaw-Dropping Dashboards Using Grafana (on a Raspberry Pi!)

CloudFlare Needs to Turn on Attack Mode

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Sep 02, 2022

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CloudFlare (NASDAQ: NET) is under social assault from people upset about KiwiFarms' usage of the platform. For those who have lives, here's the brief on KiwiFarms from Wikipedia: Kiwi Farms...is an Am...

Warren.io: Providing Cloud Platform Power Suits to Small Providers!

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Sep 02, 2022

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We'd like to welcome Warren.io, a company offering an interesting product in the cloud platform space. In a nutshell (see the one pager), they offer a way for smaller players to compete with big publi...

Warren.io: Providing Cloud Platform Power Suits to Small Providers!

Porkbun Virtual Office Tour — Alex, Eddie, and Andy

Not_Oles

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Sep 01, 2022

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Hello from New York City and Mexico! Here is another fun guest article contributed by Eddie Barksdale from Porkbun. Low End Box and @Not_Oles appreciate this personalized look inside the home offices...

Porkbun Virtual Office Tour — Alex, Eddie, and Andy

RamNode Raises Prices on DDoS Protected IPs 66% to $5/mo

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Sep 01, 2022

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If you go back seven or eight years and asked me to recommend a LEB provider, I would have asked you some basics and then might very well have recommended RamNode. Back in the day, RamNode had a nice...

RamNode Raises Prices on DDoS Protected IPs 66% to $5/mo

You Can Now License Windows Server on a Per-Virtual-Core Basis

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Aug 30, 2022

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One of the headaches in cloud environments is licensing for proprietary software, and no one is more of a headache on this point than Microsoft. If you want to offer Windows as a provider, you need to...

This Week’s Initial Ransomware Offering (IRO) Calendar

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Aug 29, 2022

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Check out this sentence: "For the author, this business model enables them to scale their earnings from their software with less risk." I slightly modified the original, but we're not talking about a...

This Week’s Initial Ransomware Offering (IRO) Calendar

Hazi.ro: 2 Cores, 4GB RAM, You Choose the Disk: €7.49/Month!

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Aug 28, 2022

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I was running some errands this morning and passed an Orthodox church. Out front was a colorful tri-color banner declaring that next weekend is the Romanian Folk & Food Festival here in Portland....

Hazi.ro: 2 Cores, 4GB RAM, You Choose the Disk: €7.49/Month!

Do you Trust Trustpilot?

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Aug 28, 2022

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Readers, do you use Trustpilot? Providers, do you live and die by it? For those unfamiliar, Trustpilot is a sort of "Yelp of everything". They offer an aggregation of reviews on nearly everything, add...

LowEndBox Won’t Be Posting Martin Shkreli’s Offers

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Aug 27, 2022

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Martin Shkreli has been released from prison. You may remember him as "pharma bro", who made a killing by exploiting an interesting aspect of the pharmaceutical market. He realized that there are sev...

LowEndBox Won’t Be Posting Martin Shkreli’s Offers

LastPass Releases Its Security Incident for 2022

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Aug 26, 2022

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Sometimes you see stuff in the media and wonder if it's really news. Some celebrity broke up with some other celebrity. Some tech company released version X.Y which is .0001% better. LastPass was h...

LastPass Releases Its Security Incident for 2022

Afghanistan Shutters Domestic Crypto Exchanges

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Aug 25, 2022

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Afghanistan launched a crackdown on crypto exchanges, closing at least sixteen such exchanges in the last week. According to Sayed Shan Sa'adat, an Afghanistani security official: "[Afghanistan's cent...

Afghanistan Shutters Domestic Crypto Exchanges

Follow us! Like us! Watch us! Gaze at us! Smell us!

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Aug 24, 2022

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Okay, that last one is not really possible. Fortunately for the human race, a social network based on our sense of smell has not been developed (though humans have tried to invent smell-transmission...

Follow us! Like us! Watch us! Gaze at us! Smell us!

DigitalOcean to Acquire Cloudways for $350 Million

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Aug 23, 2022

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DigitalOcean revealed today that they're tired of Cloudways fronting their panel, so they're going to buy them for $350 million. Cloudways has a fantastic business model: they buy a VM for $6, put the...

DigitalOcean to Acquire Cloudways for $350 Million

More Vulnerabilities, Poorer Patches: TrendMicro Is Bummed

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Aug 18, 2022

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Presenting at the Black Hat USA conference this week, Trend Micro had an interesting comment: Over the last few years, we’ve noticed a disturbing trend – a decrease in patch quality and a reduction in...

Add Some Fun to Your Day With Our Daily Pics!

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Aug 17, 2022

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There's a small scrappy start-up company that's emerging in the web space. They've been posting a different themed picture on their main service page every day, celebrating holidays, unofficial rememb...

Add Some Fun to Your Day With Our Daily Pics!

MailChimp Security Breach. Yes, Again.

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Aug 15, 2022

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MailChimp revealed they've had a security breach: "In response to a recent attack targeting Mailchimp’s crypto-related users, we’ve taken proactive measures to temporarily suspend account access for a...

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