Jan 3, 2020

How to securely connect EC2 via SSH with AWS Systems Manager

Modern best practice to connect Amazon EC2 instance via SSH without SSH key/password and with closed inbound 22 port. AWS Systems Manager Session Manager tutorial.

Step 1: Launch Amazon EC2 Instance
Step 2: Create AWS IAM Role
Step 3: Connect Amazon EC2 via SSH
Extra: Connect using SSH command and SSH key
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Step 1: Launch Amazon EC2 Instance

Navigate to Amazon EC2 and start launching new instance…

Top 3 Information Technology (IT) trends for 2020

The best tech trends in IT industry for 2020 year. What are they like? How to define and prove? Gartner, IDC, Google, Stack Overflow, Computer Economics…

Trend #1: AWS and Distributed Cloud
Trend #2: Artificial Intelligence and AI Security
Trend #3: Voice-Enabled Virtual Assistants and Multiexperience
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Trend #1: AWS and Distributed Cloud

Cloud Computing is the on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage…

How Amazon AWS Training and Certification changes reschedule policy

Amazon on the sly changed reschedule policy from unlimited rescheduling to only 2 rescheduling. When? We asked Amazon, see details below.

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I noticed that I cannot reschedule my AWS exam:

This exam can only be rescheduled 2 times, which has already occurred.

I send e-mail to aws.psisupport@psionline.com:

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Aug 19, 2019

How to export all Xiaomi Mi Band data

To export your data, sign in to mifit.huami.com/t/account_mifit or api-mifit.huami.com/t/account_mifit and select Export data.

Introduction

That’s what I noticed in my Mi Fit Android app (ver. 4.0.7):

Profile -> Help -> How to exercise your right?

Can I export my personal data?
To export your data, sign in to mifit.huami.com/t/account_mifit and select “Export data”.

Note: I can strongly recommend navigate to your Mi Fit app and verify the link.

Solution

Navigate to mifit.huami.com/t/account_mifit and click Export data:

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May 16, 2019

Your authentication information is incorrect. How to fix AWS MFA?

You cannot login to your AWS account with correct password and correct MFA code? No, you do not have paranoia. Let’s fix AWS MFA!

Step 1: Google Authenticator

If you use another application for 2-step verification codes, skip this step. Navigate to your Google Authenticator mobile app. Open Settings. Select Time correction for codes:

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Apr 18, 2019

Pseudonymization with keyed-hash function in Python and AWS

Salted-hash function is not enough to secure personally identifying information (PII)?! I can strongly recommend keyed-hash function as pseudonymization technique to be GDPR compliant.

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Easy-to-use GDPR guide for Data Scientist. Part 2/2

As successful Data Scientist, what can I do and what cannot to be GDPR compliant? Amazon Web Services (AWS) vs on-premise. De-identification vs Anonymization. Anonymization: removing, masking or suppression, generalization, k-anonymization, scrambling, blurring. Pseudonymization: tokenization, hashing, encryption, key deletion or crypto-shredding.