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The Venus Host: One Simple, Amazing Offer Cheap Shared Hosting This Black Friday!

The Venus Host is famous here for offering both monthly and annual prices. Monthly so they can win your business every month; annual so you can lock in savings once you've decided they're the host for you! Now they're ready to unleash an awesome Black Friday offer - check it out!

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The Venus Host: One Simple, Amazing Offer Cheap Shared Hosting This Black Friday!

Hosting Provider Outfitter CPLicense Has Exclusive Black Friday Deals for Us!

CPLicense provides all the license you need for your hosting company, and this Black Friday they've got an exclusive deal for our readers! Check out this post and save!

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Hosting Provider Outfitter CPLicense Has Exclusive Black Friday Deals for Us!

Elon Musk Used a Lame, Easily Defeated Method to Identify a Leaker. Learn How a Pro Would Have Done It.

Document fingerprinting to identify leakers is a fascinating niche application. There are all kinds of sophisticated methods but the way Musk went about it is, well, rather lame. Read on to lead how to pros do it!

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Elon Musk Used a Lame, Easily Defeated Method to Identify a Leaker.  Learn How a Pro Would Have Done It.

The Warren.io Interview: Learn About This Cloud Platform Startup Blazing a New Trail with Henry Vaaderpass, Co-Founder and CBDO!

Today we have another awesome interview for you, this time with Henry Vaaderpass, Co-Founder and Chief Business Development Officer at Warren.io, an Estonian startup that is bringing innovation to the cloud hosting space at an amazing pace.  This position in the industry as an platform outfitter is really fascinating.  It's a cool company, cool story, and cool interview, so read on and enjoy!

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The Warren.io Interview: Learn About This Cloud Platform Startup Blazing a New Trail with Henry Vaaderpass, Co-Founder and CBDO!

Did You Know You Can Pay to See Someone Else's Facebook Account?

For years I've read comments online by people who don't trust cloud providers because the government will use them to spy on them or these cloud companies are building massive behavioral databases.  The reality is that it's the bored junior sysadmin or the perverted graveyard shift content moderator who are going to rifle through your files. Case in point this week: Facebook.

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Did You Know You Can Pay to See Someone Else's Facebook Account?

Twitter: Are You Vulnerable?

Everyone who has anything to do with leading Twitter's security, privacy, and compliance departments has fled the company in mass resignations. Twitter is headed for a security cliff. How vulnerable are you?

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Twitter: Are You Vulnerable?

Getting Scans From 18.171.7.246 and 35.177.10.231? It's the UK Government

If you're seeing weird things in your logs, it's because the UK National Cyber Security Center has decided to scan all UK systems as part of their "Scanning the Internet for Fun and Profit" (their term). Click to learn how to opt-out.

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Getting Scans From 18.171.7.246 and 35.177.10.231?  It's the UK Government

Deep Dive: Why the Hans Niemann Lawsuit is Going Nowhere

Chess GM Hans Niemann is suing other chess notables for $400 million. We break down the legal strategy and likely outcome of this lawsuit, based on the comments from multiple attorneys. Will Niemann prevail? Not a chance.

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Deep Dive: Why the Hans Niemann Lawsuit is Going Nowhere

Why the British PM is Worried Russia Will Destroy the Internet

What happened to Internet service in the Shetlands, and why was there a Russian spy ship nearby? The Russians have amped up their undersea capabilities, but the vulnerability of this infrastructure is much broader when we consider the technological advances in underwaer drones.

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Why the British PM is Worried Russia Will Destroy the Internet

HostSailor Greenhouse (NL) Fujitsu Primergy Dedicated Server Review

HostSailor is a well established Low End provider. They joined Low End Talk over eight years ago in April 2014. As of this writing, HostSailor has started 85 Low End Talk discussions and commented 355...

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HostSailor Greenhouse (NL) Fujitsu Primergy Dedicated Server Review

Strap in for Drama and Stats: Major Cheating Scandal Rocks Online Chess

Grandmaster Hans Niemann outed as a cheater but gets a $1 million offer to play naked online.

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Strap in for Drama and Stats: Major Cheating Scandal Rocks Online Chess

When Akamai is Bought, What Happens to Linode?

A mysterious private equity buyer has been stalking Akamai (Linode's owner) for months.

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When Akamai is Bought, What Happens to Linode?

How To Install Caddy Web Server On Oracle Cloud Free Tier

Back in March, LEB published Asking the Oracle, "Is 'Always Free' the future of the Low End?" The March article pointed out one of the main features of Oracle Cloud Free Tier: no credit card is requir...

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How To Install Caddy Web Server On Oracle Cloud Free Tier

Meet the Man Running His Business on a 1967 Mainframe! Plus Hugo Award Nominee Galactic Journey!

You're telling me there's a guy who runs his business on a 1967 operating system in 2022? And uses Gopher too? Yes, we are telling you that. Plus meet Hugo Award-nominated Galactic Journey and hear about their vintage mainframe experience!

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Meet the Man Running His Business on a 1967 Mainframe!  Plus Hugo Award Nominee Galactic Journey!

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

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...

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

LowEndBox BUSTED for Dealing in Mind Expanding Substances

And you thought Silk Road was bad. This place is a cess pool of consciousness expanders, horizon growers, and barely legal performance-enhancing skill boosters.

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LowEndBox BUSTED for Dealing in Mind Expanding Substances

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

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...

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

CloudFlare Needs to Turn on Attack Mode

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...

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CloudFlare Needs to Turn on Attack Mode

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

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...

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

This Week's Initial Ransomware Offering (IRO) Calendar

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...

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This Week's Initial Ransomware Offering (IRO) Calendar

More On Installing And Configuring Certbun For Use With Apache

It's true - I'm a Porkbun fan.  Nicest interface I've found and they have either great or at least reasonable pricing.  They're one of the more popular registrars in our community. --raindog308 Hello!...

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More On Installing And Configuring Certbun For Use With Apache

LastPass Releases Its Security Incident for 2022

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...

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LastPass Releases Its Security Incident for 2022

Afghanistan Shutters Domestic Crypto Exchanges

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...

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Afghanistan Shutters Domestic Crypto Exchanges

MailChimp Security Breach. Yes, Again.

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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MailChimp Security Breach.  Yes, Again.

Cut Your Cloud Storage Bill by 75% with Internxt! Special Recurring Deal!

We've talked about Internxt before.  We interviewed their founder/CEO and shared a previous offer from them back in May. Now they've returned and want to share a RECURRING HALF OFF deal!  Yes, really!...

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Cut Your Cloud Storage Bill by 75% with Internxt!  Special Recurring Deal!

The PikaPods Interview: Super Easy Hosted Apps From People Who Care About Privacy...Plus a Darn Cute Mascot!

Today we continue our interview series with LowEndTalk member @m4nu, proprietor of PikaPods.  What are PikaPods, you ask?  A very cool service where you pick apps to host and they do all the work.  It...

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The PikaPods Interview: Super Easy Hosted Apps From People Who Care About Privacy...Plus a Darn Cute Mascot!

Review of GTHost servers -- 15 minute setup at 17 locations!

Well known Low End regular GTHost recently asked Low End Box for a review, and we are happy to oblige. As reported below, we successfully installed multiple servers in multiple locations with great re...

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Review of GTHost servers -- 15 minute setup at 17 locations!

Amazon Broke the Internet Today. Good Sales Tactic?

Amazon's Ohio datacenter experienced a significant outage today.  Amazon reported that "some instances within a single Availability Zone (USE2-AZ1) in the US-EAST-2 Region have experienced a loss of p...

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Amazon Broke the Internet Today.  Good Sales Tactic?
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