A.I.-Driven Chip Crunch Leads to New Rush of Lobbying in Washington. As data centers gobble up memory chips, other industries that need the components, including electronics companies like Apple and medical device makers, are asking for government help..
nytimes.com covered an intrusion into operational technology systems. The affected systems include industrial control infrastructure used for managing physical processes. SCADA and PLC systems exposed to external networks without proper segmentation create attack paths that bypass traditional network perimeter defenses. The breach method used in this case involved known configuration weaknesses.
Source: nytimes.com