Parler Compromised

In this episode of Phoenix Cast, hosts John and Kyle and Rich talk  about the compromise of the social media app Parler. They discuss how a sequence of unprecedented events led to 80 terabytes of the site's data being scraped and the cybersecurity lessons to be learned from this event.

Episode Links:

Wired article: https://www.wired.com/story/parler-hack-data-public-posts-images-video/

Insecure direct object reference: https://www.acunetix.com/blog/web-security-zone/what-are-insecure-direct-object-references/#:~:text=Insecure%20direct%20object%20references%20(IDOR,control%20and%2For%20authorization%20checks.

Project Maven: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/04/technology/google-letter-ceo-pentagon-project.html

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