Public Service Announcement: Recent leaks and other news
1. The entirety of Twitch has reportedly been leaked: source code, user payouts, hashed passwords. Change your password RIGHT NOW.
2. Company That Routes Billions of Text Messages Quietly Says It Was Hacked; Criminals were inside Syniverse for 5 years before anyone noticed - Malwarebytes; Syniverse responds to data breach. Good reason to switch to Signal, if you haven't already. Won't help with ordinary SMS text messages, though. Don't send secrets via SMS.
... and in other news,
3. Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen details company's misleading efforts on 60 Min. Facebook, over and over again, has shown it chooses profit over safety. It is subsidizing, it is paying for its profits with our safety. But you knew that already, right?
4. This morning I got an email from my mobile provider, AT&T, offering me a pair of free security apps collectively called AT&T ActiveArmor (details). I'd quote the email, but it was nothing but a pretty image. I went to the Google and Apple app stores and read the reviews. Apparently, it's just like all the other AT&T bloatware I've deleted over the years: flaky, a memory and bandwith hog, and not worth the price you pay for it. And when I can say that about something free, well...
5. ...and speaking of free, Windows 11 drops Oct. 5: Mark your calendars - TechRepublic. That would be today. Also, Windows 11 upgrade: Five questions to ask first | ZDNet. Fortunately it won't run on any of my machines, so I don't have to care.
P.S. In case you're trying to understand yesterday's Facebook et. al. outage, that's what I'll be writing about next.
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