![]() ![]() The payout rates negotiated between Twitch, sponsors, and streamers are now publicly available and exposed. And perhaps the ugliest part of all, it provides a serious glimpse into gender and racial pay gap disparities between content creators. This one features partner, platform, and product security issues. In what’s certainly damaging to users - but perhaps more so damaging to the platform itself - Twitch, the dominant livestreaming choice for content creators, experienced a massive data leak. Ron Wyden told Motherboard: “ The information flowing through Syniverse’s systems is espionage gold.” Expect security and privacy events that trace back to this one for years.Īttackers Reveal How Twitch Fails Livestreamers The long tail of this breach will have far-reaching consequences as Sen. That makes this breach relevant from a B2C and B2B perspective, given Twilio’s reach into the developer world. Twilio is a minority owner of Syniverse and is mentioned as one of its major contributors to revenue, behind only AT&T. This breach is not limited to an individual consumer’s text messages and records. And that’s troubling, since Syniverse “ processes 740 billion texts yearly and has over 300-plus direct connections to mobile operators” per its website. While Facebook data centers could not communicate, few tried to communicate at all about Syniverse. ![]() The truth is less salacious but far more realistic: A faulty configuration change interrupted communication between data centers. Speculation ranged from an insider show of solidarity with the whistleblower to the opposite, using the outage to draw attention away from the whistleblower testifying to the U.S. In an ironic twist of fate, Facebook, one-time social network and now disinformation distribution platform, simultaneously contended with the outage and experienced a deluge of rumors on the cause. ![]() It also highlights the risks of SMS and geolocation data, which could play a critical role in misinformation/disinformation and espionage.įacebook disappeared from the internet - literally - and that effectively buried the Syniverse news under a mountain of speculation about the Facebook outage. What makes this breach unique - for now anyway - is that the unauthorized access went unnoticed or undisclosed for five years, topping SolarWinds by an order of magnitude. Unfortunately, your texts, call records, and more were likely hoovered up by hackers in yet another third-party telecom breach. If you learned about them on October 4, it was first thing in the morning, and then … other stuff happened. Luckiest Breach Announcement Timing … Ever?īefore October 4, you likely had not heard of Syniverse, though it works with 95% of the top 100 telecoms in the world. Let’s take a trip through what’s happened so far and the lessons we’ve learned. Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy, and Scooby-Doo are all licensed private investigators ready to testify on the stand. This year, the magical mystery machine includes some copies of FTK and volatility. Ostensibly, organizations decided to pivot and use this time to confess their sins before Halloween. We’re slightly more than half way into October, and Cybersecurity Awareness Month isn’t quite taking shape the way we expected. As renowned ghost hunter and solver of mysteries, Scooby-Doo would say, “Ruh-roh, Raggy!” It looks like more than ghosts are wreaking havoc on haunted networks. ![]()
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