CISA fired a third of its staff in an effort to save money. Key people there said screw you, I am leaving. Now CISA is trying to hire new people (it would require a very strange logic for competent people to apply right now). The president came up with this half baked strategy to assist […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]AI CEOs including Dario Amodei, issued a call to ‘slow the pace’ of AI. After one of Anthropic’s researchers quit last week, saying that AI could kill all of humanity by 2030, Amodei issued a proposal this weekend to slow down the tech’s advancement to ensure public safety. OpenAI, Google and even Twitter posted support […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]For vendors who sell to the public sector, there are new rules in multiple states. For example, since April, new North Carolina contracts that have a cloud component require a risk assessment aligned with GovRAMP, the state level version of FedRAMP. GovRAMP was previously known as StateRAMP. Vendors MAY receive a waiver for one year, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]For several years the US has been trying to slow down China’s competition with us by banning the export of US technology like high end chips and chip making equipment. It actually had the exact opposite effect. Chinese companies found a gap left by the US bans and used that to develop homegrown solutions. Morgan […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Actually, for the White House, half-baked is a pretty high bar. Here is what is going on and what they are doing. You may remember that a number of public water supply systems were recently hacked. Initially, it was reported that a half dozen systems in Minnesota were attacked. The president blew that off with […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Two recent healthcare attacks brings home the dangers of cyberattacks. One firm is Boston Scientific; the other is McKesson and we are beginning to get some details of these attacks. One attack disrupted global operations and the other resulted in stolen patient data. Boston Scientific makes pacemakers and other implanted heart devices. Devices implanted after […]
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