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What IT leaders are reading, from the sources they trust, plus articles written for this site. Stories from other sites open in a new tab.
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AI is giving attackers a head start, Microsoft warns (opens Help Net Security in a new tab)
Threat actors are using AI to find bugs, build malware and run intrusions faster than defenders can keep up. Microsoft’s 2026 Digital Defense Report, covering July 2025 to June 2026, describes a near-term period in which attackers collect the benefits of AI first and defenders have to move quickly...
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OpenAI Parts Ways With Three Safety Researchers Over Sensitive Information Mishandling (opens The Hacker News in a new tab)
OpenAI has parted ways with three members of its safety team after they leaked private information in violation of company policies, The Wall Street Journal reported. "We have parted ways with three individuals for violating our policies on accessing and handling sensitive company information," a...
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OpenAI Parts Ways With Three Safety Researchers Over Sensitive Information Mishandling (opens The Hackers News in a new tab)
OpenAI has parted ways with three members of its safety team after they leaked private information in violation of company policies, The Wall Street Journal reported. "We have parted ways with three individuals for violating our policies on accessing and handling sensitive company information," a...
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Amazon Says It’s No Longer Using NDAs for Data Centers (opens Wired in a new tab)
The company announced it has stopped using secret agreements with county officials and acknowledged that community backlash is leading to data center moratoriums across the country.
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Crypto Scammers Hijack Microsoft’s Official X Account (opens Security Week in a new tab)
Hackers used the account, which has 13 million followers, to amplify a Clippy-themed cryptocurrency account. The post Crypto Scammers Hijack Microsoft’s Official X Account appeared first on SecurityWeek.
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Best Smart Cat Trackers of 2026: Fi Mini vs. Tractive (opens Wired in a new tab)
After months of monitoring Basil’s activity and sleep, I found that Fi and Tractive cat trackers come with their own trade-offs.
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Why CISOs Struggle to Answer the Board's Three Hardest Questions, and How to Fix the Report (opens The Hacker News in a new tab)
The quarterly board meeting is two weeks out. The security team is pulling exports from the identity provider, the cloud posture tool, the vulnerability scanner, the SIEM and the EDR console. Someone is building a spreadsheet to reconcile them. Someone else is turning that spreadsheet into slides...
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Why CISOs Struggle to Answer the Board's Three Hardest Questions, and How to Fix the Report (opens The Hackers News in a new tab)
The quarterly board meeting is two weeks out. The security team is pulling exports from the identity provider, the cloud posture tool, the vulnerability scanner, the SIEM and the EDR console. Someone is building a spreadsheet to reconcile them. Someone else is turning that spreadsheet into slides...
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In Rare Move, Alleged Iranian State Hacker Extradited to US (opens Security Week in a new tab)
Amir Barati, an alleged member of the Mabna Institute, was indicted for targeting universities, private organizations, and government entities in the US and abroad. The post In Rare Move, Alleged Iranian State Hacker Extradited to US appeared first on SecurityWeek.
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16-year-old boy arrested for masterminding KillSec ransomware group (opens IT Pro in a new tab)
Police have taken control of KillSec's leak site, securing at least 110 terabytes of data against further unauthorized access
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16-year-old boy arrested for masterminding KillSec ransomware group (opens IT Pro Security in a new tab)
Police have taken control of KillSec's leak site, securing at least 110 terabytes of data against further unauthorized access
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Small businesses are having their AI moment — and it’s exposing a services gap (opens CIO in a new tab)
I have spent more than 30 years in enterprise IT and managed services. For most of that time, small businesses adopted new technology on a predictable lag. Large enterprises moved first because they had the budget, staff and risk tolerance to experiment. Everyone else waited for the tools to mature...
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Small businesses are having their AI moment — and it’s exposing a services gap (opens CIO in a new tab)
I have spent more than 30 years in enterprise IT and managed services. For most of that time, small businesses adopted new technology on a predictable lag. Large enterprises moved first because they had the budget, staff and risk tolerance to experiment. Everyone else waited for the tools to mature...
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Small businesses are having their AI moment — and it’s exposing a services gap (opens CIO in a new tab)
I have spent more than 30 years in enterprise IT and managed services. For most of that time, small businesses adopted new technology on a predictable lag. Large enterprises moved first because they had the budget, staff and risk tolerance to experiment. Everyone else waited for the tools to mature...
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Small businesses are having their AI moment — and it’s exposing a services gap (opens CIO in a new tab)
I have spent more than 30 years in enterprise IT and managed services. For most of that time, small businesses adopted new technology on a predictable lag. Large enterprises moved first because they had the budget, staff and risk tolerance to experiment. Everyone else waited for the tools to mature...
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Devs are coding faster. Coding reviews are eating the gains (opens CIO Dive in a new tab)
“The bottleneck has moved from writing code to trusting it,” Purna Doddapaneni, partner at Bain & Co., told CIO Dive.
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Chinese hackers impersonate leading AI figures to harvest credentials (opens IT Pro in a new tab)
One phishing incident saw email recipients invited to join an AI policy advisory committee
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Chinese hackers impersonate leading AI figures to harvest credentials (opens IT Pro Security in a new tab)
One phishing incident saw email recipients invited to join an AI policy advisory committee
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Your Driverless Cab Is Spying on You (opens Wired in a new tab)
Self-driving cars from Waymo, Zoox, and Tesla are studded with cameras and sensors. Some of them are pointing at riders.
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New Omdia study shines light on Kaseya's unified IT service delivery platform (opens IT Pro in a new tab)
MSPs save more than $310,000 on average per year after standardizing on the vendor's offering, according to the findings
