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On today’s MSP Dispatch, we cover a new CircleCI security alert: Rotate any secrets stored in CircleCI, Amazon confirming its massive layoffs will affect 18,000 employees, and how Slack's private GitHub code repositories were stolen over holidays.

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Story Links:

• CircleCI security alert: Rotate any secrets stored in CircleCI
• https://circleci.com/blog/january-4-2023-security-alert/
• Amazon confirms its massive layoffs will affect 18,000 employees
• https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/4/23539737/amazon-layoffs-thousands-17000
• Slack's private GitHub code repositories stolen over holidays
• https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/slacks-private-github-code-repositories-stolen-over-holidays/

Notable Mentions:

• Salesforce to lay off 8,000 workers in latest tech purge
  • https://techxplore.com/news/2023-01-tech-giant-salesforce-lays-workers.html
• Twitter Verification Still Broken
  • https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/01/05/twitter-blue-verification/?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_business-technology
• New shc-based Linux Malware Targeting Systems with Cryptocurrency Miner
  • https://thehackernews.com/2023/01/new-shc-based-linux-malware-targeting.html

Banter Story:

• Now & Then New Year’s Eve Ball drop
  • https://www.recordonline.com/story/news/2021/01/07/now-then-new-years-eve-ball-drop/4100240001/

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0:00 Teaser

0:44 Intro Banter

3:53 CircleCI security alert: Rotate any secrets stored in CircleCI

9:45 Amazon confirms its massive layoffs will affect 18,000 employees

14:51 Slack's private GitHub code repositories stolen over holidays

21:00 Notable Mentions

23:48 Feedback

24:48 Community Events

26:11 Sign-off

27:54 Outtakes