🔥 Salesforce layoffs 4000 people after disastrous security breaches that left bigtech giants exposed to hackers.
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/salesforce-layoffs-artificial-intelligence/3941975/
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Well? Should they? Let’s ask Ian Betteridge.
Four weeks ago, #Google admitted it was hacked by #ShinyHunters and/or #ScatteredSpider—via #vishing. Sadly, this sparked a journalistic game of Telephone: Over the space of four weeks, “This #Salesforce instance got vished,” quickly became, “2.5 billion #Gmail users hacked!!1!”
Sigh. “This is entirely false,” complains Google. In #SBBlogwatch, we bait for clicks during dog days.
@TheFuturumGroup @TechstrongGroup @SecurityBlvd: https://securityboulevard.com/2025/09/gmail-hack-telephone-richixbw/?utm_source=richisoc&utm_medium=social&utm_content=richisoc&utm_campaign=richisoc
Well? Should they? Let’s ask Ian Betteridge.
Four weeks ago, #Google admitted it was hacked by #ShinyHunters and/or #ScatteredSpider—via #vishing. Sadly, this sparked a journalistic game of Telephone: Over the space of four weeks, “This #Salesforce instance got vished,” quickly became, “2.5 billion #Gmail users hacked!!1!”
Sigh. “This is entirely false,” complains Google. In #SBBlogwatch, we bait for clicks during dog days.
@TheFuturumGroup @TechstrongGroup @SecurityBlvd: https://securityboulevard.com/2025/09/gmail-hack-telephone-richixbw/?utm_source=richisoc&utm_medium=social&utm_content=richisoc&utm_campaign=richisoc
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#ScatteredSpider claims another #Salesforce instance—albeit three months ago.
A subsidiary of Zurich Insurance (SIX:ZURN) admitted to a huge leak: More than one million customers’ data. #FarmersGroup is the latest corporation ’fessing up to its data going AWOL via Salesforce vishing.
Farmers also trades as Foremost, Bristol West, Farmers Life and 21st Century Insurance. In #SBBlogwatch, we wonder what their Swiss masters will think.
@TheFuturumGroup @TechstrongGroup @SecurityBlvd: https://securityboulevard.com/2025/08/farmers-group-salesforce-richixbw/?utm_source=richisoc&utm_medium=social&utm_content=richisoc&utm_campaign=richisoc
#ScatteredSpider claims another #Salesforce instance—albeit three months ago.
A subsidiary of Zurich Insurance (SIX:ZURN) admitted to a huge leak: More than one million customers’ data. #FarmersGroup is the latest corporation ’fessing up to its data going AWOL via Salesforce vishing.
Farmers also trades as Foremost, Bristol West, Farmers Life and 21st Century Insurance. In #SBBlogwatch, we wonder what their Swiss masters will think.
@TheFuturumGroup @TechstrongGroup @SecurityBlvd: https://securityboulevard.com/2025/08/farmers-group-salesforce-richixbw/?utm_source=richisoc&utm_medium=social&utm_content=richisoc&utm_campaign=richisoc
(exclusive):
ShinyHunters sent Google an extortion demand; Shiny comments on current activities
In a long chat yesterday, Shiny touched on Google, France, Australia and the Qantas injunction, and the NSA's alleged attempts at voice analysis:
#ShinyHunters#ScatteredSpider#Salesforce#Google#LVMH#Qantas
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Salesforce: We’ve improved the third party integration process for single sign on, you should use External Apps!
We’ve made Connected Apps super hard to find now to force you to use them.
Good luck finding the right documentation!
Me: Ok. Well External Apps aren’t working. Can you help?
Salesforce: Oh External Apps are still in beta mode please use Connected Apps.
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Spent the day reviewing a very complex Salesforce Marketing Cloud Journey with 15 decision splits that could have just been 6 separate, simple to understand scheduled email cron jobs.
Don't write something to impress a client with your mastery of the minutia, write it to make their life easier.