Facebook Earnings — It’s been a tough quarter for Facebook as far as its share price goes, losing 14% since early September. But yesterday, the social media kingpin released earnings for the period, an indication of whether the recent fall was justified.

Spoiler: it wasn’t really. Starting with the good news — EPS beat expectations by a mild 1.4% window, while more importantly, Facebook’s “family of apps” is growing users by more than analyst expectations. This likely drove much of the firm’s 35% revenue jump, reaching $29bn. Analysts expected $29.5bn, but 35% growth is 35% growth, gotta respect it a little bit. With this, shares gained after hours by as much as 3.7%.

The bad news: Revenue did not beat, missing by a slim margin. On the other hand, net income came in under by a wide margin, missing by a somewhat embarrassing 7.7%. Although, it has become clear for much of the technology space that user growth can sometimes outweigh the importance of financial results that would not apply to many other sectors, so investors could very well be satisfied.

All in all, it turns out that talking about how much you hate Facebook while using Facebook isn’t a super effective strategy for “voting with your dollars.” We must be getting more grandmothers or something, otherwise I don’t understand how they keep growing like this.

Solar-loses — I don’t know about you but I’m completely done with cyber attacks. It’s seriously not cool, and despite that, the group that hacked Solarwinds is at it again. The Russian hacker group Nobelium, who happens to be linked to the nation’s intelligence service, have ramped up their ongoing exploit found within an update by Solarwinds.

Unfortunately for literally every business person and probably 99% of you reading this, Microsoft is sounding the alarm. As a customer of Solarwinds, Microsoft products and services are highly at risk, particularly the segment in which the group seems to be targeting, cloud services. Even worse, intelligence analysts report the organization could be taking steps towards an attack on the wider global IT supply chain.

Yeah this doesn’t sound good. I’m certainly no computer scientist, but I’m pretty sure concern is warranted. Here we have another stark reminder of how important it is to be safe and actively protect your online activities. Good luck out there.