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Your phone is the key to your digital life. Make sure you know what to do if you lose it.

Vox

Didn’t I delete my backups to free up storage space? Backup of data in the digital reality we’re in now is paramount. The impact of no backups is just too dangerous,” DeGrippo said. The old-fashioned way is to connect your phone to your computer. As I learned, your phone can’t be the sole point of access to your backup.

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Six apps that help you stick to a budget

The Verge

First of all, I need to admit that I monitor my finances in an absurdly old-fashioned way. I had a backup, so I wasn’t in much trouble — except I decided I didn’t want to be dependent on a backup. For example, one of their savings accounts offered considerably more interest than my local bank, without charging anything extra.

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Negotiating with Ransomware Gangs: What's It Really Like?

SecureWorld News

Now that some companies have managed to avoid paying ransom by restoring from backup, the gangs have upped their game. The world has certainly become more complex and dynamic since I was in the FBI and conducted extortion and bank robbery investigations. Is John’s suggestion the only option? --. From: Art To: Bob, David, Shane, John.

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- City Averts Power Outage

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

Seattle’s Emergency Operations Center (EOC) was activated yesterday, Friday, August 15th, for a downtown Seattle power emergency – several banks of transformers failed at City Light’s Union Street substation, one of two substations serving the downtown core. Seattle City Data Center under Full Power.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: EP 69 Self-Healing Operating Systems

ForAllSecure

Rather than restoring from a backup the entire operating system, which gets you everything up until the moment of that last backup, then you still have to add in what’s missing. Not restore from a backup, because other parts of your system may be doing other things. When was the backup made? CODEN: Exactly.

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AWS re:Invent 2017 Keynote with Andy Jassy

Scott Lowe

Jassy next announces DynamoDB Backup and Restore, to simplify the process of backing up and restoring data from/to DynamoDB databases. In order to get out of the keynote in a timely fashion, I’m wrapping up the liveblog here (sorry for the abbreviated coverage). It’s generally available today. So why public cloud?

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24 things we think will happen in 2024

Vox

The Survey of Professional Forecasters , which pulls together estimates from economists at banks and other private-sector entities, finds that on average they put 23.2 The Federal Reserve Board’s range of estimates for the year is between 2.3 and 3 percent, with the median at 2.4

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