Newscan: OPM director resigns after news that hack affected 21.5 million people

National Emergency Number Association (NENA) CEO Brian Fontes said it is “false” that his organization would oppose legislation that would provide $15 billion in federal funding for next-generation 911 (NG911) deployments, but he reiterated NENA’s stance that some language in the existing proposal should be changed. NENA’s position on the NG911 funding language in the […]

For the first two decades of the Internet era, operational technology (OT) in places like factories and power plants remained mostly isolated from IT systems. While the fear of cyber intrusions grew among their counterparts in IT, workers in these physical settings were far more focused on safety precautions to protect people from the machines, […]

These days many operating systems for Internet of Things devices include an open-source license, but vigilance is needed to adequately protect the attack surface. An ESG survey has indicated 38% of storage decision makers expect IoT workloads to drive on-premises storage spending increases over the next two years. Some 33% of respondents expected cloud spending […]

Web Roundup Items from other news organizations Once, superpower summits were about nukes. Now, it’s cyberweapons. Biden says he gave Putin list of 16 sectors that should be off-limits to hacking Bipartisan infrastructure pitch gains steam on Capitol Hill as Biden weighs in from Europe NSA: Test unified-communications patches before installing Bipartisan bill bolsters FCC […]