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First LastPass, now Slack and CircleCI. The hacks go on (and will likely worsen)

reader comments 72 with 0 posters participating Share this story In the past 24 hours, the world has learned of serious breaches hitting chat service Slack and software testing and delivery company CircleCI, though giving the companies’ opaque wording—“security issue” and “security incident,” respectively—you’d be forgiven for thinking these events were minor. The compromises—in Slack’s… Read More »

AWS suffers third outage of the month

reader comments 68 with 52 posters participating Share this story December has been a rough month for Amazon—at least for Amazon Web Services. The massively popular cloud computing platform suffered its third outage of the month Wednesday, affecting Slack, the Epic Games Store, and several other services.  The AWS Service Health Dashboard shows the problem… Read More »

Slack pledges update to “Connect DM” after realizing harassment exists

Enlarge / Shadowy Slack usage. (credit: Pavlo Gonchar | SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images) Ubiquitous work-chat platform Slack this morning rolled out a new feature, Connect DM, that allows users to send direct messages to people they don’t work with. Hours later, the company is already saying “our bad” and promising an update… Read More »