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I found Process Tamer through Google because I was tired of Dropbox eating 50% CPU at startup.Dropbox works great when you only have a few GB of stuff and only make small changes. But when you are routinely making thousands of changes to a terabyte, it slows down considerably. Anyhoo neat software from you guys and thanks.Owen
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AWS security woesI use AWS for backing up my web sites mostly, though I use it for other reasons sometimes. I switched to 2-factor, even though it's annoying and I don't use it much. After all, if I'm only using it for a few things, how much trouble could I get in? I saw these articles, and realized that 2-factor was a very good idea. How a bug in Visual Studio 2015 exposed my source code on GitHub and cost me $6,500 in a few hours Developers, Check Your Amazon Bills For Bitcoin Miners Amazon AWS Account Hacking and How to Avoid it How my Amazon S3 account was hacked with 10,776$ in billing. Check your S3 and secure it... even if you don't use it. Basically, they login, and then create EC2 instances with bitcoin miners. They make the money, and leave you with the bill. Just figured I'd post this as I'd not seen this particular phenomenon before. |
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