This Week's Reading 5/22/2022 #infosec #cybersecurity

 For Work

CISA 'temporarily' removes Windows vulnerability from its must-patch list

https://www.zdnet.com/article/cisa-temporarily-removes-windows-vulnerability-from-its-must-patch-list/#ftag=RSSbaffb68

FBI and NSA say: Stop doing these 10 things that let the hackers in

https://www.zdnet.com/article/fbi-and-nsa-say-stop-doing-these-10-things-that-let-the-hackers-in/#ftag=RSSbaffb68

US warns over risk of hiring North Korea IT workers

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-61474771

The case for consolidation

https://benn.substack.com/p/case-for-consolidation?s=r

Canada to ban China's Huawei and ZTE from its 5G networks

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-61517729

DOJ says security researchers won't face hacking charges

https://www.engadget.com/doj-security-research-hackers-no-criminal-charges-170715840.html?src=rss

US rushes to catch up with China in supercomputer race

https://www.ft.com/content/9ec4c04c-d71d-4d54-87fe-eef4ff92ddc9

CISA to Federal Agencies: Patch VMware Products Now or Take Them Offline

https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/cisa-patching-new-vmware-bugs-is-a-full-on-emergency

Microsoft patches the patch that broke Windows authentication

https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/20/microsoft_authentication_fix/

SolarWinds ready to move past breach and help customers manage theirs

https://www.zdnet.com/article/solarwinds-ready-to-move-past-breach-and-help-customers-manage-theirs/#ftag=RSSbaffb68

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Not for Work

Web3 is just expensive P2P

https://netfuture.ch/2022/05/web3-is-just-expensive-p2p/

Web3 is going just great

https://web3isgoinggreat.com/

‘Extortion’: Why Web3 is making a lot of software developers angry

https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/extortion-why-web3-is-pissing-off-a-lot-of-software-developers-20220516-p5alqd.html

How Gen Z is hooked on cryptocurrency and NFTs

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-60566575

Muscular men less likely to support social and economic equality, study suggests

https://www.brunel.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/articles/Muscular-men-less-likely-to-support-social-and-economic-equality-study-suggests

What Propels Cancel Culture?

https://robkhenderson.substack.com/p/what-propels-cancel-culture?s=r

Cyber security: Global food supply chain at risk from malicious hackers

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-61336659

Twitter to hide misleading tweets under new crisis response policy

https://www.zdnet.com/article/twitter-to-hide-misleading-tweets-under-new-crisis-response-policy/#ftag=RSSbaffb68

The wonder material graphene may have found its killer app

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2022/05/18/the-wonder-material-graphene-may-have-found-its-killer-app

More Subprime Borrowers Are Missing Loan Payments

https://www.wsj.com/articles/more-subprime-borrowers-are-missing-loan-payments-11652952602

Plastic-eating Enzyme Could Eliminate Billions of Tons of Landfill Waste

https://news.utexas.edu/2022/04/27/plastic-eating-enzyme-could-eliminate-billions-of-tons-of-landfill-waste/

Texas, 12 states fire back at tech industry in Supreme Court filings

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/05/18/texas-social-media-supreme-court/

IT staffing, recruitment biz settles claims it discriminated against Americans

https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/19/it_visa_discrimination/

Homeland Security 'pauses' disinformation board three weeks after creating it

https://www.engadget.com/homeland-security-disinformation-board-161722250.html?src=rss