Join Scott Young and Shaun Sturby from Optrics Engineering as they discuss what is bigger – 26 million or 8.4 billion, open redirect, the recent Akamai CDN outage and PoE powered can of spam to stop spam..
Timecodes:
- 0:00 – Intro
- 0:21 – Today’s 4 topics
- 0:55 – Topic 1: Which is Bigger 26 Million or 8.4 Billion?
- 8:01 – Topic 2: Open Redirects
- 12:11 – Topic 3: Akamai CDN Outage
- 13:24 – Topic 4: PoE Powered Can of Spam
- 19:07 – Closing remarks
Hackers Stole Nearly 26 Million User Login Credentials for Sites Like Amazon, Google, Facebook between 2018 and 2020:
- Nameless malware that stole 1.2 TB of private data
- https://twitter.com/troyhunt/status/1402358364445679621?s=21
For folks asking about 8.4B record “RockYou2021” password list that’s in the news today, this is an aggregation of multiple other lists. For example, this password cracking list: https://t.co/D72MJxk051
— Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) June 8, 2021
Password Manager Options Mentioned:
Google Meet Open Redirects and Why Phishers Love Them:
Akamai experienced an outage for one of its Prolexic DDoS services (Routed 3.0) with approximately 500 customers using this service:
PoE-powered can of spam to stop Ad spam:
In today’s episode of “Spending way to much time and money on a stupid idea”, I proudly present you my PoE-powered can of spam. pic.twitter.com/3aFcKL3eF5
— Daniel Hepper (@danielhepper) June 12, 2021