Techstrong News Recap – November 1, 2022
On Nov. 1, William Willis covered a workers walkout at a Central China iPhone Factory due to coronavirus concerns, the White House’s invitation to dozens of countries and companies for a ransomware summit and an Indianapolis low-income housing agency hit by a ransomware attack. He also talked about Meta having to pay 10.5 million dollars in a campaign financing suit. Finally, he previewed articles from Digital CxO, Security Boulevard, and DevOps.com which covered the connection between cloud transformation and data modernization, a survey showing the ongoing skills gap in the IT security space and Mezmo’s launch of its Observability Pipeline Platform.
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Hi again, everyone here the headlines for November 1st. First up workers of an iPhone Factory in central China walked away due to virus outbreaks and unsafe working conditions. The workers started leaving the factory back in mid-october after some workers fell ill and while the factory started requiring masks and disinfecting daily normal work continued.
The number of workers who have walked away from the factory since then has grown. However, the total number is currently unknown. This is all happening as Apple has been pushing and pressuring the factory to maintain the output of iPhone 14s during its peak production season showing the interesting dynamic between controlling disease outbreaks will also trying to restore the flow of goods globally.
Next up. The White House is brought several dozen countries in private sector companies together for a two-day Summit on how to fight ransomware attacks. This Summit the second International counter ransomware Summit.
Started on Monday and will focus on developing systems that are able to withstand attacks as well as stopping the Bad actors that plan these attacks. This Summit is occurring as ransomware attacks of becoming more and more of a pressing problem in the countries and companies that were going to the summit want to find ways to stop it. While on the topic of ransomware the Indianapolis housing agency has been hit by one such attack.
the federal agency that provides low-income housing in Indianapolis lost access to its emails delaying their ability to send out rent payments that 8,000 Indianapolis families depend on a current investigation is underway, but the agency is not released any details regarding the motive or the identity of the attackers. This being said the agency has been able to make all October rent payments to landlords and November payment rents are still on track. 5 million dollars in legal fees on top of the already 25 million dollar fine for what would be the largest campaign Finance fee in US history.
The judge set the fine based on more than 800 violations of Washington's Fair campaign Practices Act which requires ad sellers to make public the names of those who buy political ads. Meta has argued that this burdens political speech But ultimately lost the suit. Zooming out.
This is not the first time meta has been sued for breaking this particular law with the first being in 2018 also have lost in paying fines. On digital cxo we have an article that looks at the connection between Cloud transformation and data modernization. Cloud-driven business agility allows organizations to turn challenges into opportunities, but Cloud Transformations also need to consider data modernization to reduce duplication simplify architecture and speed up data Pipelines.
com. On Security Boulevard, we have an article looking at the survey that shows the ongoing skills Gap in the it security space. com.
com. We have an article looking at mesmo's launch an observability pipeline platform to make it simpler to manage machine data. Mezmo is stated that the goal is to provide a framework for centralizing the flow of observability data that is being generated across devops workflows.
com and that's today's Tech strong news recap.
