Network Break 337: Hey, You Dropped Some Bitcoin; Fastly Recovers From Outage…Fastly

Take a Network Break! This week we discuss Fastly’s quick recovery from a serious outage, examine an AWS incident in Frankfurt, and discuss exploits targeting VMware’s vSphere. We also dig into how US law enforcement recovered Bitcoin paid to the Darkside group, talk about why building a chip foundry in a desert may be a better idea than you think, review the opening of a new wafer fab in Germany, and talk about Hashicorp’s 1.0 Terraform release. Sponsor: Nokia Did you know that Apple is using Nokia’s Data Center Fabric solution? If you want to know more, and learn about Nokia SR Linux and Fabric Services Platform for yourself, check out nokia.com/networks/dc-fabric. Tech Bytes: Palo Alto Networks After the news we have a sponsored Tech Bytes conversation with Palo Alto Networks about Digital Experience Management, which is all about monitoring and managing the user experience when employees are accessing networks outside of IT’s control. Show Links: Summary of June 8 outage – Fastly AWS Frankfurt experiences major breakdown that staff couldn’t fix for hours due to ‘environmental conditions’ on data centre floor – The Register VMSA-2021-0010 – VMware This is not a drill: VMware vuln with 9.8 severity rating is under attack – Ars Technica How A New Team Of Feds Hacked The Hackers And Got Colonial Pipeline’s Bitcoin Back – WABE Here’s why TSMC and Intel keep building foundries in the Arizona desert – Ars Technica Bosch opens wafer fab of the future in Dresden – Bosch Media Service Bosch Flips Switch on Silicon Saxony Foundry – SDX Central Bosch is the new star in Silicon Saxony microchip cluster – DW Announcing HashiCorp Terraform 1.0 General Availability – HashiCorp Datanauts 137: Automating Infrastructure As Code With Terraform – Packet Pushers