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• Gearing up for cyberwar

  Posted on April 25, 2022 at 02:42 CDT by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

  ON SECURITY

  

  By Susan Bradley

  Once upon a time, I used to publish maps showing the location of each water pump in the city where I live.

  Fresno residents rely on the underground water supply and pump much of the drinking water from various wells throughout the city. And then Fresno — like every other city — realized that publishing information about critically important infrastructure items, such as drinking water, probably wasn’t wise. That was especially driven home after 9/11; governments realized that they were handing over helpful data to those who might use it to attack us.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (19.17.0, 2022-04-25).

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• Becoming more security-aware

  Posted on October 11, 2021 at 02:42 CDT by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

  ON SECURITY

  

  By Susan Bradley

  Windows 11 is now nearly a week old, and are we magically more secure? I’d argue not.

  An up-to-date operating system does help to make us more secure, so I cringe any time anyone wants to disable updates because they don’t feel that updates improve their security. But I’d also argue that installing Windows 11 isn’t a magic pill that, overnight, grants you the goodness of security.

  Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 18.39.0 (2021-10-11).

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• Where’s our ‘National Strategy for Cyberspace’?

  Posted on August 16, 2021 at 02:45 CDT by B. Livingston • Comment in the Forums

  ISSUE 18.31 • 2021-08-16

  PUBLIC DEFENDER

  

  By Brian Livingston

  Crime on the Internet has gotten ridiculous.

  In 2020, the Federal Trade Commission received 4.8 million complaints of identity theft (and many others go unreported). At least 37% of businesses around the globe experienced a ransomware attack last year, according to security firm Sophos. And for six days in May, hackers were even able to shut down a pipeline that supplies 45% of the US East Coast’s fuel.

  Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 18.31.0 (2021-08-16).
  This story also appears in the AskWoody Free Newsletter 18.31.F (2021-08-16).

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