The Australian Signals Directorate has release intel communications that Snowflake instances are being targetted from a range of IP Addresses. Read ASD’s communications here. Snowflake has further describe the threat in its communications here.
This looks like brute force attacks at common Snowflake accounts prompting advisory to:
>> Update Admin accounts and Disable non-active accounts.
Another quick way to block these attacks is the black-list the offending IP Addresses in your firewall. You can do this in your snowflake account with the following steps.
A new Insights page reports your downloads, likes, progress and quiz results, with CSV exports of all of it. Alongside it: account settings, a forgotten-password link that actually exists, and a notification when an admin reviews your work.
Search now covers datasets, models, courses, guides and news from a single box. Everything a signed-out visitor can read is also available as JSON, with no key and nothing to sign up for — plus RSS feeds and a sitemap.
Lessons can now end with a quiz you have to pass to finish them, courses issue a shareable certificate when you reach the end, and the learners who took a course can say what it was worth.
Every dataset from the old glitchdata shop now has a page on the hub — and, for 91 of them, a link to the official register, portal or standard where the same data can be had today, free, from the people who publish it.
