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Thu. 03/31 – Hackers Forging Emergency Data Requests

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🗓️ 31 March 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Another day of all the hacking news. Now the hackers are forging Emergency Data Requests. Apparently there have been vulnerabilities in Wyze security cameras that no one bothered to fix. TSMC warns of a tech slowdown. Masa Son orders his lieutenants to slow down investing just a bit. And yes, burrito delivery by drone, but probably more impressive is FedEx getting into the drone game. Sponsors: Linode.com/techmeme Links: Apple and Meta Gave User Data to Hackers Who Used Forged Legal Requests (Bloomberg) Wyze Cam flaw lets hackers remotely access your saved videos (BleepingComputer) Google Search’s new highly cited label helps you get to the source of a story (The Verge) TSMC says demand for smartphones, PCs starting to slow (Nikkei Asia) SoftBank to slow investments following crash in tech holdings (FT) Look up: Your burrito is arriving by drone (Axios) FedEx will test autonomous cargo flights next year (Engadget) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Thursday, March 31st, 2022.

0:07.6

I'm Brian McCullough today.

0:09.4

Another day of all the hacking news.

0:11.4

Now the hackers are forging emergency data requests and

0:14.3

apparently there have been vulnerabilities in wise security cameras that no one

0:18.4

bothered to fix. T.S. M.C. warns of a tech slowdown.

0:22.1

Masa Sun orders his lieutenants to slow down investing.

0:26.4

And yes, Burrito delivery by drone, but probably more impressive is FedEx getting into the drone game. Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

0:37.4

Seems like every week for the last month or so

0:39.8

there's been one day where half of the stories on the show could be about hacks.

0:45.3

Today is no different.

0:46.4

I could tell you about how IT and software developer, Globant, says its code repo was

0:52.4

partially breached after Lapsis shared 70 gigabytes of

0:55.8

allegedly stolen data. Globant's stock closed down 10% on that news. I could

1:01.0

also go more in depth about bridge-related hacking like we saw

1:05.2

with Axi Infinity yesterday and how apparently more than $1 billion has been

1:09.3

stolen in just the last year via bridge hacks.

1:12.9

But let's stick to these two headlines for now.

1:15.9

Sources say Apple and Meta gave user data

1:19.2

to hackers in response to forged emergency data requests.

1:23.4

Discord also says it has also fulfilled a forged legal request,

1:28.9

quoting Bloomberg.

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