WaTech in the News

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 criminals use California wildfires as part of email scam

Cyber threat actors…

From 2009 to 2014 Washington had a state broadband office that used a bunch of open data techniques to show where there was broadband internet service available - and where there wasn't. The basic idea was to build an intelligent market for broadband services and minimize the amount of public money needed. We did pretty well in this area but we left a few challenges on the table.…

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…