Techstrong News Recap – March 6, 2023

Hi again, everyone here the headlines for March 6th. First up the White House has released a cybersecurity plan aimed at bolstering protections on critical sectors and holding software companies legally liable when their products do not meet basic standards. The plan promises to use all instruments of National Power to preempt cyber attacks and lay the groundwork for better countering Rising threats to government agencies Private Industry schools and hospitals.

The plan also seeks to impose clear limits on private sector data collection input greater responsibility on software companies. This being said the strategies initiatives are likely to be met with resistance from businesses and Congress. This comes the state-sponsored cyber attacks have risen nearly 100% between 2019 and 2022 and the plan seeks to disrupt Hospital cyber activity through defending forward by drawing on military law enforcement and diplomatic tools.

Next a group of four astronauts on the NASA and spacex's crew 6 Mission successfully reached the International Space Station on Friday despite facing several problems along the way including an issue with ignition fluid and one with a docking hooks. The new crew is set to replace the current crew of two NASA astronauts a Japanese astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut who have been living on the station since October and we'll return to Earth next week aboard their own SpaceX capsule during the cruise six month Mission, they will oversee more than 200 different science and technology projects. In other news the TV provider Dish Network has stated that is still recovering from its most recent ransomware attack which disrupted its operations internet sites and call centers.

Although Dish TV was operational many customers were unable to reach its service desks access their accounts or make payments. This is now yes, this disclose the data that has been stolen by cybercriminals and it is investigating whether whether or not customer data was compromised. This being said though.

This is over 20 million subscribers on all of its services. This is not yet provided a timeline for the full recovery of its services and the company did not respond to inquiries about the perpetrators The Ransom demanded or whether it paid the ransom. This comes as ransomware attacks have become more and more of a pressing Global.

So obvious security issue hitting everything from hospitals to labor unions into Now TV providers. Next up Ford is revealed the formation of a subsidiary named latitude AI which will lead us to efforts develop a hands-free driving system. Latitude AI which will be led by several of Ford sea level Executives will concentrate on advancing and leveraging for its blue Cruise Advanced Driver assist system, which is already clocked up to 50 million miles of testing.

The car maker recruiter approximately 550 workers from Argo AI which closed down after Ford which do is funding. A lot of today. I will have engineering hubs in Dearborn, Michigan Palo Alto, California in a highway speed track test facility in Greenville, South Carolina as Ford seeks to double down on autonomous driving.

On Security Boulevard, we've an article that looks at tenables 2022 threat landscape report. One of the major findings of the report was that the main way throughout actors conducted cybersecurity attacks in 2022 was through known vulnerabilities. com.

A digital cxl. We've an article on integrating digital twin technology into value stream management. Value stream management is on the rise, but not as many organizations are making use of digital twin technology to provide even more power to Value streams.

com. We've an article that looks at how check Lee has added and monitoring as code workflow capability to its SAS platform to create synthetic tests for applications. com.

And that's today's text wrong news recap.