It’s 5:05, on Monday, November 21, 2022, the 325th day of the year. This is Pokie Huang, sitting in for Mark Miller while he is in London. This is your daily update of open source and cybersecurity news. We have 20 reporters calling in from around the world. Today’s reports come from Trac Bannon in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, Edwin Kwan in Sydney Australia, and DJ Schleen in Golden, Colorado. Let’s get to it!
🇦🇺 Edwin Kwan, Sydney, Australia
Medibank Hackers releases 1500 more sensitive records, company faces $1 billion bill
https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/medibank-hackers-release-1500-more-sensitive-medical-records-20221120-p5bzpk.html
🇺🇸 Trac Bannon, Camp Hill, Pennsylvania
Amazon RDS leakage just isn’t their fault!
https://thehackernews.com/2022/11/researchers-discover-hundreds-of-amazon.html
Extra resource: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/USER_ShareSnapshot.html
🇺🇸 DJ Schleen, Golden, Colorado
The Bird revolt and the move to Mastodon
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/11/mastodon-private-and-secure-lets-take-look
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/mastodon-social-media-twitter-rcna56288
https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2022/11/13/mapping-the-mastodon-migration-is-it-a-one-way-trip-or-an-each-way-bet-for-science-twitter/
https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/03/decentralized-social-network-mastodon-grows-to-655k-users-in-wake-of-elon-musks-twitter-takeover
https://fosstodon.org/@djschleen