Those Spam Texts Are Coming From Twilio: They've Been Hacked
Twilio has suffered a data breach and the attackers "used the stolen credentials to gain access to some of our internal systems". Twilio is a messaging platform with a nice API. I used it last year to setup an Eliza-like SMS auto-responder to amuse my daughter while traveling. With simple code, you can setup automated or responsive SMS (and other messaging platform) texting. Obviously, if this platform was subverted, th...
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Comment Free For All: Hacking in the Movies
I once watched an episode of Law & Order with a friend who is an attorney. From the moment the action switched from the police to the prosecutors, he was tied up in knots, shouting at the screen a...
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