Uber Hacked: Its Security is ‘Awful’ and ‘Weak’ - Security Boulevard

People Prefer Proper Taxis: Fake taxi-cum-takeout service Uber was fully pwned this week. The company says it’s “responding to a cybersecurity incident,” whatever that means.

It’s bad—REALLY bad.

In today’s #SBBlogwatch, we dissect a train wreck.

At @TechstrongGroup’s @SecurityBlvd: https://t.co/8P4f9SCEl2

— @Richi 🤓 Jennings (@RiCHi) September 16, 2022

Heat Cooks Twitter DC | AI Will Kill All Humans | Patreon Layoffs, CSAM Claim - DevOps.com

The Moral of the Story: Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows

In this week’s #TheLongView:
1⃣ @Twitter is in a “non-redundant state,” thanks to a hot summer,
2⃣ #AI is likely to eliminate us, and
3⃣ @Patreon fires 80 staff amid /nasty/ allegations (TW: #ChildSafety).

At @TechstrongGroup’s @DevOpsDotCom: https://t.co/kupBE1jn4z #DevOps

— @Richi 🤓 Jennings (@RiCHi) September 15, 2022

Why Twitter security sucks: Half of staff has PII access - ReversingLabs

No locks on the doors:Peiter “Mudge” Zatko (pictured) was grilled by U.S. senators this week. Twitter’s former head of security has some damning things to say about the service’s DevOps security — or lack of it.

Is your shop any better? If a bad actor insider abused their power, would you be able to quickly identify it and lock down #access?

In this week’s #SSBlogwatch we get real.

For @ReversingLabs’ @SecuredSoftware: https://t.co/xkcw4JBGC5

— @Richi 🤓 Jennings (@RiCHi) September 15, 2022

Retbleed Security Fix Makes Linux go 70% Slower - Security Boulevard

Must Try Harder:The Linux kernel workaround for the ‘Retbleed’ vulnerability is causing a huge slowdown in tests. Performance runs of VMware guests show results up to 70% worse on slightly old hardware.

Good thing @Intel is working on a better fix.

In today’s #SBBlogwatch, we #speculate to accumulate.

At @TechstrongGroup’s @SecurityBlvd: https://t.co/D2rnn3NLld

— @Richi 🤓 Jennings (@RiCHi) September 13, 2022