This Week in Security News: How Researchers Used an App Store to Demonstrate Hacks on a Factory and Microsoft Again Surpasses 100 Vulnerabilities on Patch Tuesday

By Dustin Ward

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, read about how researchers at Trend Micro used an app store to demonstrate hacks on a manufacturing facility. Also, learn about this month’s patch activity from Microsoft.…

Revamped Amazon Macie Adds ML Models, Pricing Changes

By Dustin Ward

News Revamped Amazon Macie Adds ML Models, Pricing Changes By Gladys Rama 05/14/2020 Amazon Web Services (AWS) has added some key changes to Macie, its machine learning-powered security tool for Amazon S3. According to an AWS blog post this week, Macie is now better-equipped to discover sensitive data thanks to new machine learning models designed…

A Short on How Zoom Works

By Dustin Ward

  Zoom scaled from 20 million to 300 million users virtually over night. What’s incredible is from the outside they’ve shown little in the way of apparent growing pains, though on the inside it’s a good bet a lot of craziness is going on. Sure, Zoom has made some design decisions that made sense as…

Adventures in Scaling in Changing Times

By Dustin Ward

I don’t know about you, but the last two months have been kind of crazy for me due to the spread of COVID-19. In the middle of a trans-Nordics trip in early March that took me to Denmark, Finland, and Sweden in the course of a week, Amazon asked me and my coworkers to work…