AT&T Data Breach, Spotify Social, & Google's Indexing

The Lighthouse IT Podcast - August 9th, 2024 This week, Matt & Griff discuss the tension in the cybersecurity industry after the Broadcom takeover of VMware threatens massive price hikes. Some items about the CrowdStrike outage and how to recover from it. AT&T has suffered a massive data breach, with data from nearly all its wireless customers exposed. Spotify has ambitions to be more than just a streaming app but its own social network. Reddit now blocks any search engine except Google from displaying its pages in their search results, conveniently just a bit after signing a deal with Google to allow their AI to be trained on Reddit's data. Google also now defaults to not indexing the majority of content, only doing so if they perceive a need for it, which is helpful to stem the tide of AI-generated junk but less great for smaller, more niche content. Lastly, Google has canceled its plans to phase out third-party cookies in Chrome after failing to find a solution to appease advertisers and regulators. https://hub.lighthousesol.com/blog/lighthouse-it-podcast-2/at-t-data-breach-spotify-social-google-s-indexing-338