InfoSec News Nuggets 12/08/2022

Maryland governor bans use of TikTok on state devices Maryland Governor Larry Hogan issued an emergency directive on Tuesday prohibiting the use of Chinese-owned short-video sharing app TikTok on state government devices and networks, the latest U.S. Republican to crack down on TikTok. South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem last week signed an executive order barring state employees and contractors from installing or using TikTok on state-owned devices and South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster on Monday…
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InfoSec News Nuggets 04/23/2021

1 - Researchers Secretly Tried To Add Vulnerabilities to Linux Kernel, Ended Up Getting Banned The Linux kernel is one of the largest software projects in the modern history; with a gigantic 28 millions lines of code. Contributors from all over the world and from different fields submit a large number of patches each day to the Linux kernel maintainers, so that they get reviewed before being officially merged to the official Linux kernel tree.…
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