Slack debuted its long-awaited direct messaging feature but within just a few days it was gone, pulled due to a technical oversight that created major security concerns.
The shift to cloud-based collaboration platforms, the amount of sensitive data that is now stored and communicated on those platforms, and the level of trust that people put into communication on those platforms have an inevitable conclusion: we are going to see more attacks on those platforms.
Popular collaboration tool Slack is the latest to suffer a security breach involving its GitHub repositories, with the company reporting that private source code was stolen in late December.
