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Security News for the Week Ending April 21, 2023

Arkansas Becomes First State to Ban Minors from Social Media Without Parental Permission It is now illegal for anyone in Arkansas to be on social media without parental permission if they are under 18. Do you think this will actually stop anyone? If you do, I have a bridge in Brooklyn that is for sale. […]

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Advanced Industrial Malware Could be Inside Our Critical Infrastructure

The world’s most advance industrial malware – malware that is designed to go after industrial control systems in places like power plants – called PIPEDREAM, may already have infiltrated some critical infrastructure control systems, waiting to unleash who knows what. Global business advisory firm Ankura said that they are concerned that PIPEDREAM cannot be stopped […]

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Security News Update for April 14, 2023

Tech Industry Pain Good for NSA Rob Joyce, NSA’s cyber director, says that they are seeing a boost in recruitment following waves of layoffs in the tech sector. While he is not giving numbers, any help with mid and high level recruiting would be good for the good guys. Remember that due to the clearance […]

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Security News Update for April 7th, 2023

FDA Will No Longer Approve Digital Medical Devices That Are Vulnerable Starting last month, the FDA will REJECT all new applications for any cyber medical device that does not include a cyberattack protection plan. Of course this won’t be perfect, but at least manufacturers will have to make an effort at it. Given that the […]

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Security News Update for March 31st, 2023

Twitter to Open-Source Recommendation Algorithm Not related to the announcement that some of their code was stolen last year and posted on GitHub, Twitter says they plan to publish their recommendation algorithm, which they say, no one left at the company understands. They say this will likely be embarrassing, but good for users. They also […]

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