{"id":20899,"date":"2022-12-23T09:30:12","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T17:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2022\/12\/23\/news-14632\/"},"modified":"2022-12-23T09:30:12","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T17:30:12","slug":"news-14632","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2022\/12\/23\/news-14632\/","title":{"rendered":"Transatlantic Cable podcast 280 | Kaspersky official blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

Credit to Author: David Buxton| Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2022 16:59:04 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n

The final episode of the year brings some pretty big stories for the Transatlantic Cable team \u2013 kicking off this week, discussion starts with a troubling story about democracies and spyware \u2013 in particular how the malicious software is being leveraged by others to try to subvert democratic countries.\u00a0 Moving from that, the team look at the big news of the week, with news that Twitter users have voted to remove Elon Musk as CEO of the troubled social network.\u00a0 However, even if he is removed as owner, he’ll still have overall sway of what goes on the network.<\/p>\n

From there, discussion moves to security vulnerabilities in BrickLink \u2013 Lego’s official second-hand and vintage marketplace for LEGO bricks. According to Bleeping Computer, a vulnerability could have “allowed an attacker to take over members’ accounts, access and steal personally identifiable information (PII) stored on the platform, or even gain access to internal production data and compromise internal servers.”\u00a0 Thankfully the flaws have since been fixed.<\/p>\n

To wrap up, the team discuss a recent story about Epic games \u2013 who have recently been fined $520 (yes, half a BILLION dollars) for privacy violations and, what the FTC calls “dark patterns” in order to ‘trick millions of gamers into making unintentional purchases”<\/p>\n

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