• Insecurity company Okta is buying smaller competitor Spera for $100 million.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  That's about $4 million per employee.
  
  
  
• "Insecurity company?"
  
  Okta provides online security services.
  
  Earlier this year they suffered a data breach that they said at the time affected around 1% of their customers.
  
  The actual number was closer to 100%.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  And by "was closer to" I mean "was".

• An ex-Amazon engineer has pleated guilty to hacking two crypto exchanges.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  His position as an Amazon engineer has nothing to do with the hack, though.  The problem was that the code used to manage such exchanges has more holes than a screen door in tornado season.
  
  
  
• A ransomware gang has allegedly seized back its domain from the evil clutches of the FBI.  (The Verge)
  
  And declared open season on critical infrastructure.
  
  Or...  Not.  These guys don't really follow a strict adherence to facts in their press releases.
  
  And neither do the hackers.
  
  
  
• A Citrix vulnerability was exploited at Comcast, resulting in the leak of the personal information of 35 million customers.  (The Verge)
  
  Which used to be a lot.
   
  
  
• RFC9518: What can internet standards do to combat centralisation?  (RFC Editor)
  
  Not much.

Posted by: Mauser at Friday, December 22 2023 07:10 PM (sZ6tC)

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