Newscan: CenturyLink, West Safety Comms agree to $575,000 fine over 911 outage

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 […]

In the human body, the appendix seems to serve no functional purpose. Why did the organ appear? How can it come out of people’s bodies with no harm? Much as a person’s appendix is a mystery organ with no value, the North American fire codes contain a similar useless bygone artifact. The omnipresent-but-never-used wired two-way […]