Shutting Down SlackBITS After Impersonation

A convincing impersonation of TidBITS contributor Glenn Fleishman on our public Slack group fooled an experienced IT professional into installing the OSX.Odyssey infostealer. Because Slack is designed for internal groups, its identity controls and logging aren’t sufficient for safe public use, so we’re shutting down SlackBITS and moving to Discourse Chat. This is why we can’t have nice things. In our public SlackBITS group, I received a direct message from a user whose name rhymes with “Bob,” saying he had received a private invitation from Glenn Fleishman. Pleased to be included by an author whose wr... [7276 chars]