2023 - Week reads - 40

Oct 1, 2023 weekreads reading

Some reads for this week,

• Cisco to Acquire Splunk, to Help Make Organizations More Secure and Resilient in an AI-Powered World https://newsroom.cisco.com/c/r/newsroom/en/us/a/y2023/m09/cisco-to-acquire-splunk-to-help-make-organizations-more-secure-and-resilient-in-an-ai-powered-world.html

• Hyperscalers have been choosing Arista over Cisco for data center switches https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/hyperscalers-choose-arista-over-cisco-for-data-center-switches/2023/09/

• OpenTofu Announces Fork of Terraform https://opentofu.org/blog/opentofu-announces-fork-of-terraform/

• Amazon Unveils New Cloud Storage Offerings at AWS Storage Day https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevemcdowell/2023/09/17/amazon-unveils-new-cloud-storage-offerings-unveiled-at-aws-storage-day/

-PRC-Linked Cyber Actors Hide in Router Firmware https://www.ic3.gov/Media/News/2023/230927.pdf

• US and Japan warn of Chinese hackers backdooring Cisco routers https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/us-and-japan-warn-of-chinese-hackers-backdooring-cisco-routers/

• Backdoored firmware lets China state hackers control routers with “magic packets” https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/09/china-state-hackers-are-camping-out-in-cisco-routers-us-and-japan-warn/

• L’Afrique subsaharienne en sursis : Pourquoi l’Inde restreint ses exportations de riz ? https://www.portail-ie.fr/univers/enjeux-de-puissances-et-geoeconomie/2023/lafrique-subsaharienne-en-sursis-pourquoi-linde-restreint-ses-exportations-de-riz/

• Africa’s Internet registry placed under receivership https://mybroadband.co.za/news/internet/507882-africas-internet-registry-placed-under-receivership.html

• The vast majority of NFTs are now worthless, new report shows https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/22/nfts-worthless-price