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A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. For a daily selection see our twitter feed at #ionCube24. The joys of electric cars, and because you have all the gizmos at your disposal does it mean you should use them at every opportunity?

ionCube Encoder 11 is now available at ioncube.com and supports PHP 7.4 syntax encoding as well as including a range of other improvements. It also happens to be Black Friday and so we are able to offer this brand new release at a great discount!

Security researchers are warning biomanufacturing facilities around the world that they are being targeted by a sophisticated new strain of malware, known as Tardigrade. The warning comes from the non-profit Bioeconomy Information Sharing and Analysis Center (BIO-ISAC) which revealed that at least two large facilities working on manufacturing bio-drugs and vaccines have been hit by the same malware this year, in what appear to be targeted attacks.

As digital transformation continues post-COVID more organizations, including those covered by HIPAA, will seek out SaaS solutions that make collaboration easier. Fortunately more and more applications like Slack are enabling HIPAA compliant use. In early 2019 as Slack filed for its IPO, the company also updated its security page to provide details on its qualifications as a HIPAA compliant messaging app.