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January 18, 2020 By ray

Meet the Fiverr super-sellers who are pulling in 6-figure salaries, $5 at a time

A handful of Fiverr sellers are using the site to make a comfy living. (fiverr.com) Fiverr specializes in selling freelance gigs at $5 a pop — but those fives can add up to six-figure salaries. There are a small handful of Fiverr super-sellers who are raking in the big bucks and making Fiverr into a comfortable freelance living.… Read more

November 8, 2019 By ray

You need a password manager — right now

Who loves dealing with passwords? No one, that’s who. Making them, remembering them, having to create a new one when they expire and all you want to do is log in. Then there’s the dreaded breach-of-the-week, whern we find out about the latest major hack attack or big-data snafu, meaning we have to reset our passwords again. On top of all this, there are the accounts we need to just to keep the lights on, so remembering every single password is impossible. It’s enough to make anyone want to table-flip the internet.… Read more

November 6, 2019 By ray

How desktop-as-a-service makes complex IT architecture simple

The workplace is becoming increasingly dynamic and digital, because companies need employees who are flexible can work from anywhere, and can execute work tasks from any machine they have their hands on. That means physical desktops and laptops have become, essentially, obsolete in their old form, and companies have started to realize the benefits of embracing virtual and cloud computing.… Read more

October 8, 2019 By ray

ITAR: AWS IAM Best Practices

Lock Away Your AWS Account Root User Access Keys You use an access key (an access key ID and secret access key) to make programmatic requests to AWS. However, do not use your AWS account root user access key. The access key for your AWS account root user gives full access to all your resources for all AWS services, including your billing information.… Read more

October 8, 2019 By ray

Will Capital One’s 106M Name Data Breach Cut Into AWS’s Growth?

Should you own Amazon stock? It would certainly be a better investment if its most profitable business, AWS, was growing faster. And the odds of that happening would be better if the industry in which it competes — cloud services — was accelerating. But news that Capital One — a proud AWS customer whose stock plunged over 5% in premarket trade on July 30 — suffered a 106 million customer data breach makes me think it’s possible that AWS’s growth might slow down even more (AWS grew over 40% in previous quarters and slowed to 37% in the latest quarter) and give pause to companies in the middle of moving their IT operations to the cloud. Amazon stock — which trades 7% below its all-time high — is down nearly 1% in pre-market trading on July 30. (I am a Capital One customer and have no financial interest in the securities mentioned in this post).Today… Read more