[Link] Air Force Spent Millions on Encrypted App Wickr

Read: 29/11/2021 www.vice.com

The U.S. Air Force has spent millions of dollars on licenses from encrypted chat platform Wickr, according to Air Force documents and public procurement records reviewed by Motherboard. The documents further solidify Wickr’s position as a preferred tool of the U.S. government and military.

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[Link] All your DNS were belong to us: AWS and Google Cloud shut down spying vulnerability

Read: 9/8/2021 www.theregister.com

Until February this year, Amazon Route53's DNS service offered largely unappreciated network eavesdropping capabilities. And this undocumented spying option was also available at Google Cloud DNS and at least one other DNS-as-a-service provider.

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[Link] AWS to retire EC2-Classic – the network connecting the compute service that started the IaaS rush

Read: 30/7/2021 www.theregister.com

Comment Amazon Web Services has announced the retirement of the network structure underpinning its third cloud service, the EC2-Classic network underpinning the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud.

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