Techstrong News Recap – July 7, 2022

Hi, I'm Nathan Solomon. Today is Thursday, July 7th. And here's the headlines.

First Tennessee's unemployment benefits website was taken down due to a Cyber attack on its vendor Geographic Solutions. With over 12,000 people relying on the unemployment benefits program to survive the attack prevented the Department of Labor and Workforce Development from processing new claims sending benefit payments or providing job placement services. After being down for several days, the website is back up and running with Benefits being allocated to those who couldn't make claims during the downtime.

Next sky high security announced its partnership with gotara a global career growth platform for women in stem. Through the partnership gotarra's star program advisors will upskill and Mentor sky high security employees offering them personalized and confidential career advice. The collaboration is a key component of Sky High's leadership development program which looks to address the skill shortage in the cybersecurity field.

By diversifying its Workforce Sky High and gotara are empowering women to take on managerial and Leadership roles within the company. In other news the US government has pushed new funding into three technology companies to evade censorship of Ukrainian news. since the start of the conflict Russia has banned numerous Independent Media sources like Instagram Facebook and YouTube The financing efforts focus on firms that build vpns that can bypass Geographic restrictions and evade government censorship technology.

The funding flows through the US Agency for Global media a federal agency that oversees US government backed broadcasters. Next the Large Hadron Collider on the Franco Swiss border near Geneva, Switzerland was successfully started for the third time. 6 trillion electron volts granting is increased precision and Discovery potential.

With the collider up and running scientists. Hope to gain a better understanding of Dark Matter mysterious substance that makes up over 30% of the matter energy composition of the universe. The increased efficiency of the collider may also present answers to some fundamental questions about Dark Matter potentially even telling us about its origin Next ABI research predicts that 75% of 5G networks will be upgraded to 5G Advanced by 2030.

The first release of the 5G Advanced standard happened in December 2021 and it is now recognized the next major evolution of 5G. Networks that upgrade will benefit from enhanced mobility and reliability for advanced applications. However, the upgrade of 5G network infrastructures is predicted to be faster in the consumer Market than with Enterprises with 50% of 5G base stations predicted to upgrade to Advanced in the end in the Enterprise Market.

Within the consumer Market 5G Advanced offers monetary opportunities with cases like gaming and video streaming while Enterprises will benefit from improved remote working and virtual training. On Security Boulevard, we have an article talking about AMD being the latest victim of The Ransom house extortion group a cyber criminal gang which claims to have exfiltrated more than 450 gigabytes of data. Amid, the global chip shortage and D was attacked by Ransom house with details being released to the public by the cybercriminals.

For one it was shockingly revealed that AMD staff used password as the password for critical network access. AMD joins five other companies that have been breached by Ransom house including the ShopRite group one of South Africa's largest Supermarket chains. com.

We have an article talking about how more than half of devops Pros have backdoor access to it infrastructure. In the discuss survey 53% of respondents admitted to sharing credentials across teams while well over half of respond and said to take days or even weeks for Access requests to be approved. With an increasing amount of workers operating remotely.

It's important for infrastructure access to be Speedy. However, a whopping 73% of respondents said it takes at least 15 minutes to gain access to infrastructure. With these lengthy wait times.

It's evident. Just how much time and effort devops and cybersecurity professionals are wasting waiting for approval from one another. Finally an article on container Journal covers seven Cloud native Computing Foundation projects for building Cloud native Networks.

Using these tools Engineers can construct cni compatible networks and overlay networks on top of pre-existing Cloud native architectures. Such networks can produce increased connectivity and it is distributed architecture, which will continue to be a goal for many Enterprises going forward and that's today's headlines.