The final episode of the year brings some pretty big stories for the Transatlantic Cable team. Kicking off this week, discussion starts with a troubling story about democracies and spyware \u2013 in particular, how others are leveraging the malicious software to try to subvert democratic countries. Moving from that, the team look at the big news of the week, with word that Twitter users have voted to remove Elon Musk as CEO of the troubled social network. However, even if he is removed as owner, he\u2019ll still have overall sway of what goes on the network.<\/p>\n
From there, discussion moves to security vulnerabilities in BrickLink \u2013 Lego\u2019s official second-hand and vintage marketplace for LEGO bricks. According to Bleeping Computer, a vulnerability could have, \u201callowed an attacker to take over members\u2019 accounts, access and steal personally identifiable information (PII) stored on the platform, or even gain access to internal production data and compromise internal servers.\u201d Thankfully, the flaws have since been fixed.<\/p>\n
To wrap up, the team discuss a recent story about Epic Games \u2013 which has recently been fined $520 million (yes, half a BILLION dollars) for privacy violations, and what the FTC calls \u201cdark patterns,\u201d in order to \u201ctrick millions of gamers into making unintentional purchases.\u201d<\/p>\n
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