Episode #237: Beware: Phishing Scam from Legitimate Booking Platforms; Google Basic HTML Users Need to Find a New Home; Live From DevOps World Tour; This Day in Tech History

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This Day, September 26, in Tech History

🇺🇸 Marcel Brown, St. Louis, Missouri ↗

September 26, 1996. IOmega kicked off a 17 stop Zip Across America promotional tour demonstrating their new mass storage device, the ZipDrive. Do you all remember those? It was a 3. 5 inch, 100 megabyte capacity disk.

Beware: Phishing Scam from Legitimate Booking Platforms

🇦🇺 Edwin Kwan - Sydney, Australia ↗

Phishing scams just got more sophisticated with scammers targeting hotel staff in order to phish their customers. They first make contact with the hotel staff under the guise of making a reservation.

Google Basic HTML Users Need to Find a New Home

🇺🇸 Ian Garrett, Arlington, Virginia ↗

There's another casualty in the war between security and usability. Google has started notifying Gmail users about the retirement of basic HTML view in January 2024. After this date, users will need modern web browsers to continue accessing Gmail.

Live From DevOps World Tour

🇺🇸 Tracy (Trac) Bannon, Camp Hill, Pennsylvania↗

I'm reporting from Jersey City, New Jersey. I'm at the DevOps World Tour sponsored by CloudBees and dang, I'm excited. I'm getting to see old friends and meeting new. Our topics are including AI Augmented DevOps, Platform Engineering for App Modernization, SEI Quality of Service at Scale with CI Observability.

 From Sourced Network Productions in New York City, It's 5:05. I'm Executive Producer, Mark Miller. Today is Tuesday, September 26th, 2023. We're going to start off with something new Trac Bannon has been live at the CloudBees DevOps World Tour in Jersey City. She's recorded a couple segments with people that have been presenters at the conference itself. This is going to be a short, ongoing series over the next couple of days.

Today Trac is going to talk with Bill Bensing about governance engineering. Sit tight, this is kind of fun.