Techstrong News Recap – December 6, 2022
On Dec. 6, William Willis covered the director of the FBI raising national security concerns over TikTok, Apple and Amazon resuming ad spending and Twitter offering advertising incentives and the social app Hive shutting down its servers to fix critical vulnerabilities. He also talked about how New Zealand has proposed a law requiring digital companies to pay for news content that it distributes. Finally, he previewed articles from Container Journal, Security Boulevard and DevOps.com, which covered a survey showing increased Kubernetes usage, Palo Alto Networks moving to securing medical devices and AWS previewing Amazon Code Catalyst which can automatically create developer environments.
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Hi again, everyone here the headlines for December 6th. First up the director of the FBI Chris Wray has raised National Security concerns over tiktok. Race cited concerns that the Chinese government had the ability to control the apps recommendation algorithm to manipulate content and influence operations in the US.
Additionally Ray noted that the app could be used to collect data on its users. Concerns about China's influence on tiktok is nothing new as the story has been playing out over the course of the past couple years, even as the company has repeatedly stated that the Chinese government has no access to the app. This being said the US officials and tiktok are currently in talks about an agreement.
That would resolve American Security concerns with tiktok saying that they believe that they can come to a resolution that would satisfy them. In other news in order to increase advertisers on its platform Twitter is offered advertising incentives to increase ad spending. Twitter has offered to match ad spending 100% for advertisers at book 500,000 or more up to a million dollar cap and what it is hailing as the biggest Advertiser incentive in history of Twitter.
This comes as many companies such as General Mills and Audi have stopped or paused to add spending on Twitter. However, apple and Amazon two companies that originally pause spending have stated that they plan on resuming Advertising pending some security tweaks to the ad service. Next as more users are dissatisfied with the current direction Twitter is moving in many are looking towards Alternatives.
This is led to massive increases in the user bases of twitter-like social apps, but the Newfound popularity of these apps are bringing scaling and security issues to the spotlight a prime example being hive with all the Twitter chaos Hive grew to over 2 million users by the end of November. However, it has had to resort to shutting down its servers to work on critical vulnerabilities that have become apparent because of the influx of users. Some of these vulnerabilities include bugs that would allow attackers to access user data and edit posts.
Hive is not yet stated when they plan to go back online, but this incident poses questions over the security for all the Twitter alternatives. In other news the New Zealand government has said it plans to implement a law that will require digital companies including meta and Google to pay local media companies for the content that they distribute to their users many of the New Zealand media companies have been struggling to stay afloat as more and more advertising moves to digital. In order for them to continue to operate they need to be able to profit from the contents that they distribute and that is exactly what this newly proposed law intends to do.
The legislation will go to Parliament where it is expected to pass. Zooming out other countries such as Australian Canada have created similar laws to help digital platforms make deals with local media companies and just last week a review by the Australian government showed that the policy was largely successful our container Journal. We have an article looking at a survey that shows a significant spike in kubernetes use a survey getting responses from over 500 it employees found that 79% so that their organizations increase their kubernetes usage over the past two years in 87% so that they expect their kubernetes usage to increase even more in the next two years.
com. On Security Boulevard, we have an article looking at how Palo Alto networks is moving towards securing medical devices. Palo Alto networks has stated that it is extending its secure access service edge platform to medical devices in a move that would create a zero trust it environment with least privilege access policies for medical devices.
com. com. We have an article looking at how Amazon web services launched a preview of its Amazon code Catalyst framework that can automatically provision and configure developer environments in the cloud.
Amazon has said that the goal of this new framework is to reduce the friction that developers encounter when they need to launch a new development project. com and that's today's text strong news recap.
