TrendLabs: Raccoon Stealer’s Abuse of Google Cloud Services and Multiple Delivery Techniques

Figure 3. Countries affected by Raccoon malware since April 2019

REF: https://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/raccoon-stealers-abuse-of-google-cloud-services-and-multiple-delivery-techniques/

Google Cloud Next ’18

Next ’18: Join us live or online July 24–26.

It’s not too late to register for the Google Cloud event of the year in San Francisco.

REF: https://cloud.withgoogle.com/next18/sf/explore

GDPR user consent tools for publishers

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Google
Date: Fri, May 25, 2018 at 9:42 PM
Subject: Important update about the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) user consent tools for publishers

Dear Partner, In April we announced tools to help you comply with the GDPR and shared our plans to be a part of the IAB transparency & consent framework. Today we wanted to share a Help Center article (DFP, AdSense) which provides more information about our IAB integration. If you have any questions about this update, please don't hesitate to reach out to your account team or contact us through the Help Center. Thanks, The Google Team

Google GDPR policy

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Google
Subject: Important updates about the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

In August last year, we announced our commitment to comply with Europe’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Last month, we shared more about our GDPR policy, contract and product changes and today, we wanted to share new Help Center articles for DFP/AdX, AdMob, AdSense which provide more information on these changes. The articles cover:

Controller responsibilities Consent support Choice and control over ads personalisation

If you have any questions about this update, please don't hesitate to reach out to your account team or contact us through the Help Center.

Thanks, The Google Team

Linux kernel (GCP) vulnerability

It was discovered that the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel did not
properly keep track of nested levels in guest page tables. A local attacker
in a guest VM could use this to cause a denial of service (host OS crash)
or possibly execute arbitrary code in the host OS.
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3484-3
November 21, 2017

linux-gcp vulnerability
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Google Cloud Organization

The Cloud Organization allows Google Cloud Platform admins to centrally manage all the Cloud Platform resources associated with their domain, apply IAM policies, consolidate Billing, and much more.

REF: https://cloud.google.com/resource-manager/

NVIDIA GPUs for Google Compute Engine

Compared to traditional solutions, Cloud GPUs provide an unparalleled combination of flexibility, performance and cost-savings:
REF: https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/09/introducing-faster-GPUs-for-Google-Compute-Engine.html

Google Drive backup with Rclone

Completed binary packages for Linux, Windows, Mac OS, the BSDs, Plan 9, and Solaris can be downloaded from Rclone's website [1]. If you would prefer to build your own and you have a Go compiler on your system, you can proceed with the command

go get -u -v github.com/ncw/rclone

REF: http://www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2017/204/The-sys-admin-s-daily-grind-Rclone

GCP region expanded to Frankfurt

To help reduce latency by up to 50% for end users in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and Eastern Europe, a new region has been launched in Frankfurt (europe-west3). European companies east of Frankfurt should see better app performance.

REF: https://cloud.google.com/about/locations/

GCP: Expanding Kubernetes in the enterprise

vmware-pivotal-google-cloud

Google Container Engine + Pivotal Container Service

REF: https://www.blog.google/topics/google-cloud/vmware-and-pivotal-launch-new-hybrid-kubernetes-solution-optimized-gcp/

Google Cloud Interconnect

Beta

This is a beta release of Google Cloud Dedicated Interconnect. This API might be changed in backward-incompatible ways and is not subject to any SLA or deprecation policy.

Google Cloud Dedicated Interconnect extends your on-premises network to Google's network through a dedicated, private connection.

REF: https://cloud.google.com/interconnect/docs/

Google CLoud Free Tier

Always Free Usage Limits

As part of the Google Cloud Platform Free Tier, Compute Engine offers an amount of usage that is free to use, up to a specific limit. These free usage limits are always available even during and after the free trial period. If you go over these usage limits and are no longer in the free trial period, you will be charged according to the price sheet.

• 1 f1-micro VM instance per month (US regions, excluding Northern Virginia).
• 30 GB of Standard persistent disk storage per month.
• 5 GB of snapshot storage per month.
• 1 GB egress from North America to other destinations per month (excluding Australia and China).

REF: https://cloud.google.com/compute/pricing

Google Cloud Platform is the PaaS leader

According to the report, an insight PaaS makes it easier to:

• Manage and access large, complex data sets
• Update and evolve applications that deliver insight at the moment of action
• Update and upgrade technology
• Integrate and coordinate team member activities

REF: https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/08/independent-research-firm-names-Google-Cloud-the-Insight-Platform-as-PaaS-Leader.html

Chromebook with Google Play

Chromebook with Google Play looks cool. Works as both tablet and netbook :)


REF: http://www.ithome.com.tw/news/110981

OTT analytics strategy

• OTT data sources
• audience profiling, behavior
• audience rate via time series
• geo mapping for interest groups
• geo mapping for regional, global
• platform comparison: cable vs. digital
• customer market analysis: world vs. city
• => data driven, branding combinition marketing.

G Suite permissions

User role assignment can be done as following.

REF: https://support.google.com/a/answer/172176?hl=en

google form

Google Form真是問卷，報名表的好幫手! 問卷填答設定方便，要上傳檔案這種進階功能，還能掛指令碼編寫，複製貼上超方便，省下程式設計師好多時間哪!

REF:
https://gscript.xyz/2015/12/30/google-form-%E9%80%8F%E9%81%8Egoogle%E8%A1%A8%E5%96%AE%E4%B8%8A%E5%82%B3%E6%AA%94%E6%A1%88/

Chrome OS

Chromebit迎著智慧棒風潮，出了一陣子了。不知道能為Chrome OS增加多少普及率呢？至少在簡易電腦，櫃檯，Console之類的應用，應是足矣。

REF: http://www.techbang.com/posts/40067-asus-chromebit-computer-great-trial

Geo replication

用不同地區IDC的概念來解釋「雲端」到底買了什麼，似乎比較直觀一些。備份資料到雲端，實際也是異地備援那樣。例如用Google App這種SaaS，就可以在地圖上標出Mountain View, CA啦。