Episode 96: Hosting Provider Failures and Incident Response Preparedness




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Summary: Two hosting providers experienced outages this week. GoDaddy had a brief outage affecting numerous systems on Tuesday, November 17. Managed.com had an extensive outage due to ransomware that affected all systems. We discuss what types of incident response preparations site owners should consider when events beyond their control occur. We also discuss an attack targeting themes using the Epsilon Framework, the new head of security at Twitter, and an Android chat app exposing private messages.