TSB 148: Nation-State Actors go after cloud providers who have customers that have weak passwords

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Welcome to the security box, podcast 148. On this podcast, I may have a complete moron with a company, we'll have news, notes and more. The topic deals with passwords and it isn't looking that great.

Morons

We stand in solidarity with you, Reddit users. Reddit is taking advantage of the situation just like Twitter did so many months before.

Apparently, Reddit has decided to do the same thing. One article says they're only charging $0.24 per 1,000 calls to their API, but people indicate its much different. The cost is $12,000 per month or roughly up to $20 million per year according to some estimates. Here are the blog posts as of writing in regards to Reddit.

• Accessibility apps will be free for API use on Reddit
• Reddit communities to go dark on June 12th, setting themselves to private
• Reddit to charge $12k for 50k calls to API?
• Its Official, Apollo shutting down
• Here’s an ars article on Apollo

Van Nuys is not too far from where I live in a town called Woodland Hills. I go through there every time I take the bus. According to a KNX article which is very short, it says a guy from there was caught selling drugs on the dark web. Here is the blog post from the tech blog titled Van Nuys man pleads Not Guilty to selling drugs online which links to the KNX article.

In Case you Missed it

In Case you missed it, I finished Tracers in the Dark. It was a very interesting book, one I didn't want to put down until I did. Book Review: Tracers in the dark, by Andy Greenberg is the blog post and I'm not giving anything away.

Our Topic: Weak Passwords

Our topic comes to us from Cyberscoop. It was an interesting read. The article is title Nation-state actors are taking advantage of weak passwords to go after cloud customers, Google says and I found it interesting. This proves again that we need to make sure that our users are using strong passwords or pass phraises. Don't worry, Cyber Security Awareness Month is coming up, so TSB will be starting all over again with basic stuff when it comes to your security.

I hope that every single person will enjoy today's program, and thanks so much for listening!

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