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S3:E6 - CD Projekt Red Hack, a Florida Water Supply Hack, and a Major ‘Dependency Confusion’ Hack

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English - February 18, 2021 00:00 - 36 minutes - 50.1 MB
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Previous Episode: S3:E5 - Developers' Place Within Clubhouse, Margaret Mitchell’s letter to Google, Apple’s App Tracking Transparency, and Tracking Capitol Rioters
Next Episode: S3:E7 - Google’s Termination of Dr. Mitchell, Clubhouse Security, Australia’s News Publisher Law, and Low-Code Tools

In this episode, we talk about engineers unionizing with other workers at Medium, Epic’s MetaHuman Creator, a hacker who broke into a water system in Florida, and a security researcher who breached over 35 big tech companies leveraging something called dependency confusion. Then we are joined by Pierre Leclerc, co-founder of 6 Eyes Studio, and game developer of the tactical RPG, Fell Seal, to chat about the recent hack of the game studio CD Projekt Red, and what one can realistically do with stolen video game source code.

Show Notes DevDiscuss (sponsor) CodeNewbie (sponsor) Avalanche (sponsor) Medium Workers Union A sneak peek at MetaHuman Creator: high-fidelity digital humans made easy Hacker Tried to Poison Florida City's Water Supply, Police Say Dependency Confusion: How I Hacked Into Apple, Microsoft and Dozens of Other Companies Cyberpunk and Witcher hackers auction off stolen source code for millions of dollars 6 Eyes Studio

In this episode, we talk about engineers unionizing with other workers at Medium, Epic’s MetaHuman Creator, a hacker who broke into a water system in Florida, and a security researcher who breached over 35 big tech companies leveraging something called dependency confusion. Then we are joined by Pierre Leclerc, co-founder of 6 Eyes Studio, and game developer of the tactical RPG, Fell Seal, to chat about the recent hack of the game studio CD Projekt Red, and what one can realistically do with stolen video game source code.

Show Notes DevDiscuss (sponsor) CodeNewbie (sponsor) Avalanche (sponsor) Medium Workers Union A sneak peek at MetaHuman Creator: high-fidelity digital humans made easy Hacker Tried to Poison Florida City's Water Supply, Police Say Dependency Confusion: How I Hacked Into Apple, Microsoft and Dozens of Other Companies Cyberpunk and Witcher hackers auction off stolen source code for millions of dollars 6 Eyes Studio Pierre Leclerc

Pierre Leclerc is co-founder of 6 Eyes Studio, and game developer of the tactical RPG, Fell Seal.