WaTech in the News

Video Recording of the August meeting

Every year Washington state agencies publish a bunch of reports analyzing what's going on in the state. In 2014 there were at least 140 of them contributed to the State Library's very under-appreciated Depository program. Most of these are on topics requested by the legislature - policy questions that aren't quite ripe for decision yet, or accountability for key programs. Often they help…

Over the past two months we've interviewed 109 business owners and prospective business owners from across the state, ranging from sole proprietors to newly-formed LLCs to mid-size companies in heavily regulated industries to businesses just hiring their first employee to business owners that didn't know they had to register at all. From minority and women

Each interview we do is…

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued an alert on a Critical Vulnerability in SAP NetWeaver AS Java. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability through the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) to take control of trusted SAP applications. SAP has released a security update to address a critical vulnerability, CVE-2020-6287.

CISA encourages…

This month's briefing from our colleagues at the Multi State Information Sharing and Analysis Center includes news about criminals using the California wildfires in email scams, updates on malware in circulation, and a report of a drone vulnerability that could allow access to account information:

Cyber threat actors…