TikTok ‘Will’ Spy on US Citizens — Say Sources - Security Boulevard

For You Plague: TikTok parent ByteDance is planning to track the location of certain targeted individuals on U.S. soil. A specialist Chinese team is already assigned to the task, we’re told.

It’s not the first allegation that #TikTok is up to no good.

In today’s #SBBlogwatch, we doubt it’s the last.

At @TechstrongGroup’s @SecurityBlvd: https://t.co/ZJOJ38IcMa

— @Richi 🤓 Jennings (@RiCHi) October 21, 2022

Fire at Data Center Causes Chaos | 20% Costlier Cloud - DevOps.com

The moral of the story: Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans

In this week’s #TheLongView:
1⃣ A South Korean conflagration leads to a *ridiculously* long outage, and
2⃣ the price of #PublicCloud is skyrocketing.

At @TechstrongGroup’s @DevOpsDotCom: https://t.co/iqu9a3CuSI #DevOps #Kakao

— @Richi 🤓 Jennings (@RiCHi) October 20, 2022

Devs: Don’t rely on GitHub Copilot — legal risk gets real - ReversingLabs

Shut up and think of the deadline: GitHub’s Copilot ML code-completion engine is violating copyright wholesale. So say several high-profile open source advocates.

3/ The lesson for devs? Be extremely careful about the code fragments you import.

In this week’s #SSBlogwatch we go around.

For @ReversingLabs’ @SecuredSoftware: https://t.co/PsuMS6G98T

— @Richi 🤓 Jennings (@RiCHi) October 19, 2022

$3 BILLION in DeFi Hacks in 2022—So Far - Security Boulevard

In Fiat We Trust: Fake money fans are once again mourning the theft of worthless tokens. Finding security flaws in brittle DeFi “smart contracts” seems like shooting fish in a barrel.

3/ #AndNothingOfValueWasLost.

In today’s #SBBlogwatch, we point and laugh at naked emperors.

At @TechstrongGroup’s @SecurityBlvd: https://t.co/sQhl9WTtev #crypto

— @Richi 🤓 Jennings (@RiCHi) October 17, 2022