September 30, 2022
Security: Browser-based HEAT attacks putting CISOs on the hot seat
SC Media
As employee usage of SaaS applications and other cloud-based services rapidly explode, the web browser has become an increasingly popular point of entry for attackers looking to secretly breach an endpoint before ultimately moving laterally into the network.

Highly Evasive Adaptive Threats, or HEAT attacks, exploit browsers — leveraging their tools and features to circumvent traditional security measures (e.g. static analysis, web gateways, sandboxes and filtering) and then compromise credentials or deliver ransomware and other malicious programs. Read More
Healthcare IT: New free software enables 3D image sharing in PACS
Healthcare IT News
Created by a collaborative team at the Rady Hospital's Helen and Will Webster Foundation 3D Innovations Lab, or 3DI Lab, a freely available software called Media2DICOM is being touted as the first-ever tool of its kind.

WHY IT MATTERS
With Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine standardization software, or DICOM, doctors can use the standard picture-archiving communication system imaging to import and export patients' 3D models. Previously, 3D imaging was accessible only with specialized software. Read More
Homeland Security: Major disaster response underway in devastated Florida as Hurricane Ian eyes Carolina coast
Homeland Security Today
As floodwaters and storm damage to critical infrastructure hampered the task of trying to gauge the toll that Category 4 Hurricane Ian took on Florida, the southern Atlantic coast prepared for potentially life-threatening storm surge and flooding rains that could reach up into Virginia after landfall today in South Carolina.

Florida’s Division of Emergency Management said Thursday that more than 800 urban search-and-rescue team members were at work and there were 42,000 lineman responding to more than 2 million reported power outages. Biden approved a major disaster declaration for the state. Five thousand Florida Guardsmen were activated to assist Hurricane Ian response operations, along with up to 2,000 Guardsmen from neighboring states. Read More
Transportation: EV charging network moves forward in all 50 states
Transportation Today News
On Tuesday, the U.S. Departments of Transportation and Energy announced the Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Deployment Plans for all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico have been approved under the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Formula Program.

The approvals mean the states all have access to formula funding for FY 22 and FY 23 to help build EV chargers along more than 75,000 miles of highway across the country. Part of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, more than $1.5 billion over the next two years will be available for states to use to build out the EV charging network infrastructure. Read More
Human Resources: Report: 9 in 10 companies will require return to office by 2023
HR Dive
Ninety percent of companies said they will require employees to return to the office at least part of the week in 2023, according to a Sept. 26 report from Resume Builder. A fifth said they will fire workers who do not return.

For companies currently functioning under a hybrid work policy, 77% said that policy will change in the next year. While fewer than one-fifth said they will require employees to be full time in the office, 40% said they will require workers to come in four days a week and 31% said three days a week.

Notably, nearly three-quarters of companies surveyed said they still intend to hire remote workers in the future. Read More
Business & Technology: Data storytelling: A key skill for data-driven decision-making
CIO
To be a truly data-driven enterprise, organizations today must go beyond merely analyzing data. Rather, business experts and IT leaders must transform relevant data into compelling stories that key stakeholders can readily comprehend — and leverage to make better business decisions.

This vital skill is known as data storytelling, and it is a key factor for organizations looking to surface actionable information from their data, without getting lost in the sea of charts and numbers typical of traditional data reporting. Read More