Microsoft confirms some customer data was left exposed due to a server configuration error but calls claims that 65K+ companies were affected an exaggeration (Kyle Alspach/Protocol)

Kyle Alspach / Protocol:
Q&A with CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz as the company surpasses $2B in annual revenue and looks to become a bigger player in data observability and IT operations  —  CrowdStrike is finding massive traction in areas outside its core endpoint security products, setting up the company to become …

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
Microsoft says hackers used vulnerabilities in Boa web server, discontinued in 2005 but pervasive across IoT devices, to target the Indian power sector  —  Microsoft said today that security vulnerabilities found to impact a web server discontinued since 2005 have been used to target and compromise organizations in the energy sector.

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
Microsoft confirms two zero-day vulnerabilities in Exchange Server 2013, 2016, and 2019 are being exploited; one researcher suspects a Chinese threat actor  —  Microsoft has confirmed that two recently reported zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, 2016, and 2019 are being exploited in the wild.

Karl Bode / VICE:
A Reddit user provides a detailed look at a decommissioned Netflix cache server with 262TB of storage; such servers are often embedded within major ISP networks  —  A Netflix cache server is getting a second chance at life thanks to Redditors.  —  KB  —  A Redditor says they’ve managed …

Ina Fried / Axios:
Sources: Twitter starts cutting an unspecified number of contractor workers in various fields, including content moderation, real estate, marketing, and others  —  After laying off half its staff earlier this month, Twitter on Saturday started culling its vast ranks of contract staff, sources confirmed to Axios.

James Hale / Tubefilter:
Discord renames Premium Memberships as Server Subscriptions and makes them available for all US creators; Discord will take a 10% cut of subscriptions  —  Over the past year, Discord has been testing creator monetization through what it called “Premium Memberships”-a monthly paid tier similar …