Reading Time: 4 minutes Or ransomware as a service or RaaS, please refer to this Pensacola News Journal article, search for “Black Basta” for the detailed information. I felt this article was well written. Unfortunately, this one is the place I used to work – Ascension Health (company official note on this cyber security event). I also talked about
Reading Time: 11 minutes 中文版 – 谷歌翻译 – 美国上班20多年用过的那些电脑 I started working in the US since Oct 2000. In a few years, hopefully I can retire from my current software dev job on my own terms (rather than let’s just say being replaced by AI :-). When I 1st started to working in the US, back in year 2000,
Reading Time: 2 minutes I talked about arbitrage quite a bit in my blog, but in terms of profit I didn’t make much until year 2022 – I followed Warren Buffett and bought into Microsoft Activision Blizzard acquisition. I got this idea when I attended #BRK2022 shareholder meeting in Omaha, Nebraska. Most recently, I speculated a few more, one
Reading Time: 2 minutes cobble together per Collins Dictionary: If you say that someone has cobbled something together, you mean that they have made or produced it roughly or quickly. Or Google AI overview – “Cobble together” is an American English phrasal verb that means to produce something quickly or roughly, often without great care or effort. For example,
Reading Time: 3 minutes (08-05-2024) Noticed judge ruled in a similar case, the Google search engine/Apple iPhone case, and Google lost this 1st round. Think they will likely appeal. But Tech Industry Braces for Fallout From Google Antitrust Verdict. This potentially has some impact on Apple. Also, today I noticed the Google chat app on iPhone is called just
Reading Time: 4 minutes (Update 04-05-2024 BleepingComputer) Panera Bread week-long IT outage caused by ransomware attack (Update 03-27-2024) Both the app and the website are back, fully functional as of now (this morning). Btw, I cleaned up a few CC in my account (from 6 to 3); also enabled 2 factor authentication for MyPanera account (via SMS, not perfect,
Reading Time: 2 minutes I can think of two scenarios: one is acquisition is done via cash; another one is done by stocks (and the stock itself is overvalued). The yardstick of overpayment ====== EBITA or EBITDA (or use Charlie Munger’s word, replace it with bullshit) I know from my own software industry experience, 10x sales (or revenue) is
Reading Time: 2 minutes Blue and green bubble divide As mentioned here in the CBS News YT video – “Breaking down the Apple antitrust lawsuit”. iMessage vs text message. I noticed some issues in the group text messages in the past: for example, I can not add someone on Android to a group text. If one of the member
Reading Time: 4 minutes (12-19-2024) How the ransomware attack at Change Healthcare went down: A timeline (04-09-2024) Change Healthcare faces second ransomware dilemma weeks after ALPHV attack || So in summary, ransomware attack poses two threats: 1) Loss of data, if they bad guys encrypts the data; 2) Leak of data, in the case a company or an organization
Reading Time: < 1 minute I am teaching a database course this semester at a local university. It seems install MySQL on Windows is not very straightforward. Something I didn’t realize as personally I am on the Mac for a while. I looked around and summarized the following choices. Local MySQL vs online databases – Top 9 free online databases
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