What I am Reading 5/7/2023

 Google launches entry-level cybersecurity certificate to teach threat detection skills

https://www.csoonline.com/article/3695575/google-launches-entry-level-cybersecurity-certificate-to-teach-threat-detection-skills.html#tk.rss_all

Critical Infrastructure Organizations Urged to Identify Risky Communications Equipment

https://www.securityweek.com/critical-infrastructure-organizations-urged-to-identify-risky-communications-equipment/

Russia-linked Sandworm APT uses WinRAR in destructive attacks on Ukraine’s public sector

https://securityaffairs.com/145731/cyber-warfare-2/sandworm-apt-winrar-destructive-attacks.html

Critical Siemens RTU Vulnerability Could Allow Hackers to Destabilize Power Grid

https://www.securityweek.com/critical-siemens-rtu-vulnerability-could-allow-hackers-to-destabilize-power-grid/

Those scary warnings of juice jacking in airports and hotels? They’re nonsense

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/05/fearmongering-over-public-charging-stations-needs-to-stop-heres-why/

Vulnerability Management Maturity Model – Self-Assessment Tool (VMMM-SAT)

https://www.sans.org/blog/vmmm-self-assessment-tool/

The key to making the US cyber strategy work: boots on the ground

https://cyberscoop.com/us-cyber-strategy-local-cybersecurity-volunteers/

Top US cyber official warns AI may be the ‘most powerful weapon of our time’

https://cyberscoop.com/easterly-warning-weapons-artificial-intelligence-chatgpt/

DEF CON to set thousands of hackers loose on LLMs

https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/06/ai_hacking_defcon/

Computer system used to hunt fugitives is still down 10 weeks after hack

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/05/01/marshals-hack-fugitives-surveillance-shutdown/

China has 50 hackers for every FBI cyber agent, says Bureau boss

https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/01/fbi_director_wray_china_testimony/

A Brutal Sex Trade Built for American Soldiers

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/02/world/asia/korea-us-comfort-women-sexual-slavery.html

Japan to ban upskirting in sweeping sex crime reforms

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-65453384?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA

Controversial bill to regulate online streaming becomes law

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/c11-online-streaming-1.6824314

Uncle Sam sounds like it may actually do something about rampant visa H-1B fraud

https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/01/uscis_h_1b_surge/

As more electric vehicles hit the road, our charging habits must change - here’s why

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/01/electric-cars-charging-habits

I’m in Wyoming to celebrate the next nuclear breakthrough

https://www.gatesnotes.com/Wyoming-TerraPower

So, you're telling me that US crypto mining used more power last year than ALL THE COMPUTERS?!

https://www.pcgamer.com/so-youre-telling-me-that-us-crypto-mining-used-more-power-last-year-than-all-the-computers/

Chipotle Is a Criminal Enterprise Built on Exploitation

https://jacobin.com/2021/05/chipotle-workers-fair-workweek-law-nyc

Googlers angry about CEO’s $226M pay after cuts in perks and 12,000 layoffs

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/05/googlers-angry-about-ceos-226m-pay-after-cuts-in-perks-and-12000-layoffs/

Yet another problem with recycling: It spews microplastics

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/05/yet-another-problem-with-recycling-it-spews-microplastics/