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Crowdstrike, Ticketmaster, Facebook, and Books; AM1280 The Patriot, Brad Carlson, Sunday, July 21, 2024

The Ticketmaster breach is a good story. Ticketmaster lost 560 million customer records, apparently because it failed to enforce two-factor-authentication (2FA). Ticketmaster blames cloud storage provider, Snowflake, because Snowflake did not default to 2FA. Hudson Rock produced a writeup on the attack Friday, May 24, 2024 blaming Snowflake, but took it down over that weekend because of pressure from Snowflake’s legal department. Snowflake said it found no evidence that anyone penetrated any of its systems. All the attacks came from stolen credentials people had reused with other websites. Meanwhile, Ticketmaster victims filed a class-action lawsuit against Ticketmaster.

The Crowdstrike outage that took out airports and most of civilization this weekend is still all over the news. What’s not in the news is why so many prominent organizations failed to test this update before rolling it into production on millions and millions of critical systems.

I wrote a blog post on the Facebook bug that destroys peoples’ profiles without warning. Keep your good stuff somewhere you control, not inside any social media platform.

And then, books. I ran across a group named Shepherd.com a couple months ago. Shepherd challenges authors to name five favorite books centered around a theme. Doing this exercise right was hard work. Here are the best five books featuring vulnerable people like me who stepped up as superheroes when pushed past their limits.

Watch the unedited Facebook Livestream.

(Skip to around the 01:18:04 mark.)