Craig Peterson's Tech Talk

Microsoft's April patch release fixed 167 security holes in a single day, one of them a zero-day already being actively exploited before the fix shipped. The federal government added eight more items to its emergency security watch list the same week. Craig's point: people obsess over updating their laptop and phone, but rarely think about the printer or the security camera in the corner of the office — both are now regular attack targets. That's also the logic behind the federal ban on importing Chinese-made routers, VPN hardware, and Wi-Fi equipment. Roughly 200,000 U.S. households were found running compromised versions of these devices, unknowingly part of a botnet used to attack other targets — while the same access was being used to pull personal information off the household's own network at the same time. Also in this segment: The Elon Musk–OpenAI lawsuit and concerns about juror impartiality after several seated jurors said they don't like Musk — flagged below for Craig's review New DNA research ide