Techstrong News Recap – July 19, 2022

And here are the headlines. First in news Netflix is partnered with Microsoft for an ad supported subscription plan in April Netflix announced it was planning on rolling out an ad supported tier after years of resisting the move. Netflix has been long opposed to having commercials and other promotions in the platform, but it said during the company's earnings conference call that it makes a lot of sense to offer customers a cheaper option in recent months Netflix has struggled to retain and add subscribers and this may be due to an increasing the cost of its services in the beginning of 2022.

Turn the tides Netflix is partnering with Microsoft who will help facilitate that based service. Next in a recent report the Cyber safety review board classified log4j software flaw as endemic. The new cybersecurity panel created by the Biden and administration said that while there hasn't been a sign of any major Cyber attack due to the log4j flaw.

It will still be exploited for years to come. The board's chairman even said it is one of the most serious software vulnerabilities in history the fall which made public last year. Let's internet-based attackers easily sees control of everything from industrial control systems to web servers and consumer electronics the board also noted the flaw will post security risks for potentially a decade or more.

In other news Snapchat is finally coming to the web after More Than A decade is a mobile app. Snap announced today that it is debuting Snapchat for web allowing users to send messages and make video calls to their contacts from their computers. The new desktop version.

Well at first only be available to Australian and New Zealand users as well as to Snapchat Plus subscribers and the US UK and Canada snap recently launched Snapchat Plus allowing users to pay $399 a month for a wider range of features. The desktop version of snap will be a more stripped down version of the mobile app as well mainly focus in the app's messaging feature instead of the stories feature. Another Tech Giant making headlines Amazon who is paused work on six new US Office Buildings to weigh.

Its hybrid work needs. Amazon planned on constructing six new Office Buildings in Bellevue and Nashville. However, it wants to make sure the building designs suit hybrid work.

With remote and hybrid work becoming increasingly prevalent in today's world Amazon is considering different layouts than traditional workflows. The announcement comes just weeks after Amazon highlighted its growth in Bellevue. It also noted that its decision to pause construction does not change stated commitment to Bringing 25,000 jobs to the East Side by 2025.

The news also comes the same time as an Amazon's pullback on its office expansion plans in New York City. Although Amazon is one of the industry's leaders. It's becoming evident that the macroeconomic conditions and potential recession are taking no prisoners and forcing almost everyone to dial back on their expansive plans.

Next it seems Elon Musk is a no rush to go to court against Twitter as hemen is legal team filed the motion opposing Twitter's requests to Fast Track a trial over his termination of the 44 billion dollar deal. Musk's lawyers said Twitter's unjustifiable requests to rush the merger case to trial in two months should be rejected. The legal Showdown has had a number of twists and turns with the trial yet to even begin originally musk and Twitter agreed to a merger at 5420 per share then must decided to terminate the deal citing excessive amount of spam Bots as the reason.

Since then Twitter has been trying to force must back into the purchase through legal action. Twitter requested the trial began in September because the merger agreement would must terminates on October 25th. Twitter declined to comment on musk's motion to delay the trial but it's clear that both sides are motivated to have their way.

com we have an article talking about how building secure code is needed to prevent supply chain attacks. It begins by citing the solarwinds cyber attacks as a point of concern and ultimately proof that the supply chain is vulnerable to severe attacks, whether from the Hostile nation state like Russia or any other cybercriminal party. With this it argues that practices like code signing and source code scanning technology is important for flagging vulnerabilities.

It also talks about the need for cisos to be proactive and constantly scanning for Flaws that could be exploited. On container Journal we have an article talking about implementing zero trust on kubernetes at first covers the basic concepts of the zero trust model before then talking about the three best practices for zero trust it then concludes that security can no longer be an afterthought when deploying and managing kubernetes and production environments. It also argues that zero trust practices are effective and can secure kubernetes projects and it infrastructures.

Finally on Security Boulevard is an article covering a survey. That's just the zero trust it transition will take time. The survey of 400 senior decision makers from mid to large size companies in the US and Canada found that 97% view adopting a zero trust model as a priority.

It also showed that the primary reasons for making the shift to zero trust are securing remote access improving the end user experience and eliminating exposure to Via VPN vulnerabilities. Although many want to make the shift the article also says it's not clear the rate at which the shift is zero trust. It will accelerate the transition of the cloud.

And that's today's headlines.