Tues Feb 18 2020: An Inside Job & JEDI updates

Tues Feb 18 2020: An Inside Job & JEDI updates

Today * That dark web sale of an MSP? An inside job https://www.crn.com/news/channel-programs/fbi-msp-engineer-arrested-in-attempt-to-sell-access-to-clients https://www.crn.com/news/managed-services/how-alleged-dark-web-hacker-w0zniak-tried-to-put-msp-chimera-out-of-business AND * Two updates to JEDI. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/02/11/microsoft-blasts-amazons-sensationalist-politicized-rhetoric-pentagon-cloud-lawsuit/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/02/13/court-orders-pentagon-halt-work-microsofts-jedi-cloud-contract-after-amazon-protests/ https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/13/technology/amazon-jedi-pentagon-contract-microsoft.html

Today

  • That dark web sale of an MSP? An inside job

https://www.crn.com/news/channel-programs/fbi-msp-engineer-arrested-in-attempt-to-sell-access-to-clients

https://www.crn.com/news/managed-services/how-alleged-dark-web-hacker-w0zniak-tried-to-put-msp-chimera-out-of-business

AND

  • Two updates to JEDI.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/02/11/microsoft-blasts-amazons-sensationalist-politicized-rhetoric-pentagon-cloud-lawsuit/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/02/13/court-orders-pentagon-halt-work-microsofts-jedi-cloud-contract-after-amazon-protests/

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/13/technology/amazon-jedi-pentagon-contract-microsoft.html

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