Name: #14 - Bad Choices, Good Advice (Also cybersecurity and you)
Uploaded: 2022-09-07T19:56:50+00:00
Duration: 46 min 35 s
Description: What happens when you don’t pursue your passion or you do and it doesn’t work out. This week Abdul Bailey and Jeff Torello share stories around their life choices and what it meant. We follow up on th

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What happens when you don’t pursue your passion or you do and it doesn’t work out. This week Abdul Bailey and Jeff Torello share stories around their life choices and what it meant. We follow up on the recent Twilio security breach explaining the implications and sharing things you can do to protect your digital life.

LINKS to ARTICLES

Phishers who breached Twilio and targeted Cloudflare could easily get you, too
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/08/phishers-breach-twilio-and-target-cloudflare-using-workers-home-numbers/

The number of companies caught up in recent hacks keeps growing
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/08/the-number-of-companies-caught-up-in-the-twilio-hack-keeps-growing/

1,900 Signal users exposed: Twilio attacker 'explicitly' looked for certain numbers
https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/16/twilio_breach_fallout_signal_user/

How a Third-Party SMS Service Was Used to Take Over Signal Accounts
https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjkvxv/how-a-third-party-sms-service-was-used-to-take-over-signal-accounts

Hunter S Thompson Video
https://youtu.be/NHeSC_Ws5Ic

Do you use SMS for two-factor authentication? Here's why you shouldn't [CNET Article on alternatives to SMS]
https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/do-you-use-sms-for-two-factor-authentication-heres-why-you-shouldnt/

Twilio did NOT disclose number of employees that were fooled into giving up their user names/passwords.

Oktapus attack on Twilio exposes data of 163 companies
https://www.cshub.com/attacks/news/oktapus-attack-on-twilio-exposes-data-of-163-companies#:~:text=The%20breach%20was%20discovered%20on,a%20limited%20period%20of%20time%E2%80%9D

CDW article on Hard Tokens vs Soft Tokens
https://www.cdw.com/content/cdw/en/articles/security/hard-tokens-vs-soft-tokens.html

RESOURCES YOU CAN USE

Signal Messenger
Https://www.signal.org