2018-11-12 | ReplyAll looks at the Snapchat Thief, Blackberry + Cylance, and Voting machine manual encourages weak passwords

Monday, November 12

TOP STORY

• The ReplyAll podcast does an episode on SIM Swapping: The Snapchat Thief and Krebs profiles Phobia, a criminal hacker who hunted bugs and reported them responsibly while also running a service to scam the loopholes he found.

TWEET OF THE DAY

• OMFG! Rome's airport (Aeroporti di Roma) is hijacking all my unencrypted HTTP traffic and inserting an iframe in every webpage I visit. THIS IS WHY YOU NEED SSL EVERYWHERE!! - @yassineaboukir

OTHER ARTICLES WE’RE READING

• Voting machine manual says weak passwords more better per Motherboard

• Blackberry + Cylance? They’re talking says Business Insider

• Amazon API Gateway Adds Support for AWS WAF. Love the quote from [Last Week in AWS]: “The ‘architecture of tomorrow’ gets the Internet defense technology of 1999”

• Speaking of Amazon: They were ordered by a local New Hampshire judge to give up Echo recordings for a double murder case

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People spent all this time trying to defend elections from hackers, and in reality the threat was always politicians trying to delegitimize the count.

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