Sunday, February 26, 2023

What I am Reading 2/26/23 - Back from Miami Beach edition

 It was a busy couple weeks traveling to Miami Beach, attending S4x23, and then coming home and dropping back into the grind, but I haven't forgotten about you guys.  Without further ado a couple weeks worth of reading:

The maze is in the mouse:  What ails Google and how it can turn things around.

https://medium.com/@pravse/the-maze-is-in-the-mouse-980c57cfd61a

Sensitive US military emails spill online

https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/21/sensitive-united-states-military-emails-spill-online/

Place your bets

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2023/02/place-your-bets.html

Dragos Report Identifies Two New Threat Groups

https://www.itsecurityguru.org/2023/02/15/dragos-report-identifies-new-threat-groups/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dragos-report-identifies-new-threat-groups

Traditional PAM solutions aren’t working, Keeper Security study finds

https://www.itsecurityguru.org/2023/02/15/traditional-pam-solutions-arent-working-keeper-security-study-finds/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=traditional-pam-solutions-arent-working-keeper-security-study-finds

Cyberwar Lessons from the War in Ukraine

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/02/cyberwar-lessons-from-the-war-in-ukraine.html

The return of Flat Earth, the grandfather of conspiracy theories


https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/02/the-return-of-flat-earth-the-grandfather-of-conspiracy-theories/

US says Google routinely destroyed evidence and lied about use of auto-delete

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/02/us-says-google-routinely-destroyed-evidence-and-lied-about-use-of-auto-delete/

Ukraine suffered more data-wiping malware than anywhere, ever


https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/ukraine-suffered-more-data-wiping-malware-than-anywhere-ever/

Seattle becomes first US city to ban caste discrimination


https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64727735?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA

US Supreme Court wary of removing tech firms' legal shield in Google case

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64727712?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA

Technical debt? Don't spend more than one-quarter of your time dealing with it


https://www.zdnet.com/article/technical-debt-dont-spend-more-than-one-quarter-of-your-time-dealing-with-it/

Lab Leak Most Likely Origin of Covid-19 Pandemic, Energy Department Now Says

https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-origin-china-lab-leak-807b7b0a

James Bond books edited to remove racist references

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/02/25/james-bond-books-edited-remove-racist-references/

Beej's Guide to C Programming

https://beej.us/guide/bgc/html/split/index.html

The Capitalist Road to Serfdom


https://jacobin.com/2023/02/capitalist-road-to-serfdom-surveillance-wage-labor

High-skilled visa holders at risk of deportation amid tech layoffs

https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2023/02/24/temporary-visa-h1b-tech-layoffs/

U.S. corn-based ethanol worse for the climate than gasoline, study finds


https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/us-corn-based-ethanol-worse-climate-than-gasoline-study-finds-2022-02-14/

Even Neal Stephenson doesn't seem keen on crypto anymore

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/culture/even-neal-stephenson-doesn-t-seem-keen-on-crypto-anymore

There is a worrying amount of fraud in medical research


https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2023/02/22/there-is-a-worrying-amount-of-fraud-in-medical-research

Stanford Faculty Say Anonymous Student Bias Reports Threaten Free Speech


https://www.wsj.com/articles/stanford-faculty-moves-to-stop-students-from-reporting-bias-anonymously-cbac78ed

Companies Can’t Ask You to Shut up to Receive Severance, NLRB Rules

https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy7a7x/companies-cant-ask-you-to-shut-up-to-receive-severance-nlrb-rules

How India’s caste system manifests in Seattle-area workplaces and beyond


https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/how-indias-caste-system-manifests-in-seattle-area-workplaces-and-beyond/

The age of Agile must end

https://uxdesign.cc/the-age-of-agile-must-end-bc89c0f084b7

5th person confirmed to be cured of HIV

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/5th-person-confirmed-cured-hiv/story?id=97323361

The Silicon Valley Loop How the dot-com crash created Palo Alto’s clueless investor class.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/02/the-silicon-valley-loop-malcolm-harriss-palo-alto.html

Speech is violence? Not if we want a liberal, intellectual society


https://bigthink.com/thinking/is-speech-violence/

Big Tech’s massive layoffs will come back to haunt it

https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-jobs-recession-layoffs-gen-z-students-class-of-2023-2023-2

OT Network Security Myths Busted in a Pair of Hacks

https://www.darkreading.com/ics-ot/ot-network-security-myths-busted-in-a-pair-of-hacks

Attacks on industrial infrastructure on the rise, defenses struggle to keep up


https://www.csoonline.com/article/3687814/attacks-on-industrial-infrastructure-on-the-rise-defenses-struggle-to-keep-up.html#tk.rss_all

PLC vulnerabilities can enable deep lateral movement inside OT networks

https://www.csoonline.com/article/3687991/plc-vulnerabilities-can-enable-deep-lateral-movement-inside-ot-networks.html#tk.rss_all

The Energy Department’s Puesh Kumar on grid hacking, Ukraine and Pipedream malware


https://cyberscoop.com/puesh-kumar-energy-cybersecurity/

Is OWASP at Risk of Irrelevance?


https://www.darkreading.com/edge-articles/is-owasp-at-risk-of-irrelevance

Bill Fehrman - CEO Berkshire Hathaway Energy talking at S4x23

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ihvrqlxk5tA&feature=shares


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