At the beginning of this month Twitter had, reportedly, about 7,500 employees and 5,500 contractors. In an effort to stem the cash flow bleeding, Elon Musk fired about half of the employees and all or most all of the contractors. That means an organization that previously had around 13,000 people was instantly reduced to about […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Remember Mastodon’s 1 Million Users Last Week – Now 6 Million Last week I reported that the open source distributed alterative to Twitter, Mastodon (sorry, mammoth, I misspelled it last week) now has 6 million. While that pales before Twitter’s 200 million, the growth curve is interesting. And because it is distributed, it will be […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]AstraZeneca Learns About Cloud Security – As Should You Apparently, AstraZeneca left credentials to an internal server on GitHub for over a year. The credentials granted access to a test SalesForce environment that contained patient data. Once TechCrunch told them about it, they made the repository private. Who found that repo, who found the credentials, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Twitter Whistleblower Says There Was at Least One Chinese Spy Working at Twitter Mudge says that there were spies working for China and India working at the company. Twitter says of course. Probably because that was part of a deal-with-the-devil that Twitter made to be able to stay in the country. What Mudge says was […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Microsoft’s LinkedIn Sued for Abusing Clipboard Access Apple’s Universal Clipboard allows you to share data between devices. According to the lawsuit, LinkedIn reads the data without notifying the user. However, LinkedIn is not alone. More than 50 apps, apparently, do that. Now that they have been sued, they are changing their app. Credit: Reuters When […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The details are a bit sketchy, but a number of high profile Twitter accounts were hacked on Wednesday. Among the accounts hacked were Apple, Elon Musk and Joe Biden. Other accounts include Kim Kardashian West, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Barack Obama, Wiz Khalifa, Warren Buffet, YouTuber MrBeast, Wendy’s, Uber, CashApp and others. Read to the […]
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