February 20, 2023

Reddit Hacked, Preventing Accidental Location Sharing, Developer Hacks His Own Company

16 minutes

Reddit announced that it was the victim of a phishing attack aimed at its employees, resulting in unauthorized access to internal documents, code, and some unspecified business systems.

Advice on managing device location-tracking settings to ensure you’re not sharing your location inadvertently.

The case of former Ubiquiti employee, Nickolas Sharp, who pled guilty to multiple felony charges after orchestrating a security breach, stealing data, and extorting almost $2m worth of cryptocurrency from his company.

Plus, our thoughts about UFO’s and Chinese spy balloons!

** Links mentioned on the show *

Reddit Suffers Security Breach Exposing Internal Documents and Source Code

https://thehackernews.com/2023/02/reddit-suffers-security-breach-exposing.html

https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/10y427y/we_had_a_security_incident_heres_what_we_know/

How to Make Sure You’re Not Accidentally Sharing Your Location

https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-not-accidentally-share-your-location/

Tom’s Video! How to Stop Online Tracking: 3 New Ways

Tom’s blog that he hasn’t updated in forever

https://spylogic.net

Developer pleads guilty to hacking his own company after pretending to investigate himself

https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/3/23584414/ubiquiti-developer-guilty-extortion-hack-security-breach-bitcoin-ransom

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