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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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Nathan Fielder’s Surprise Call From Elizabeth Holmes: ‘I Trust You’ (opens Wired in a new tab)
The codirector of “You Can See Everything” talks exclusively to WIRED about truth, lies, and Theranos.
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Exploited Fortinet Bug Linked to Stealthy FortiGate Implant in Telecom Hack (opens Security Week in a new tab)
The persistent, stealthy FortiGate implant was deployed against a telecommunications organization. The post Exploited Fortinet Bug Linked to Stealthy FortiGate Implant in Telecom Hack appeared first on SecurityWeek.
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With open-weight AI, more of the security burden falls on enterprises (opens Help Net Security in a new tab)
Organizations that run open-weight AI models on their own infrastructure may have to supply safety and security controls that an AI provider would otherwise handle for them, Microsoft and NVIDIA warn in a joint paper on managing the risks of these models. Open-weight models are AI models whose...
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How CIOs can address the hidden cost of AI delegation (opens CIO Dive in a new tab)
Leaders need a more nuanced understanding of human involvement as AI becomes embedded in everyday work.
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How the Xbox’s Disc-to-Digital Program Works (opens Wired in a new tab)
Microsoft is letting players digitize their game discs for free, but don't sell your physical collection just yet.
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Maricopa County, Arizona, Is Again Ground Zero of Election Conspiracy Theories (opens Wired in a new tab)
In 2020, Maricopa County became the epicenter for Trump’s claims the election was stolen. Six years, later the president and his allies are dusting off their “rigged” playbook ahead of the midterms.
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ConnectWise Shuts Off Cloud Services After ‘Unauthorized Access’ to Microsoft 365 Tenants (opens Infosecurity Magazine in a new tab)
Cloud Backup, SaaS Security, and Cloud Management services offline as IT service provider investigates possibility that unknown attackers have full access to client environments via stolen tokens
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Fake Web3 Accelerator Uses npm Packages to Spread Malware and Hijack AI Agent Traffic (opens The Hacker News in a new tab)
A fake Web3 accelerator has been observed pushing information stealers and backdoors to Windows and macOS systems using malicious npm packages under the pretext of offering free artificial intelligence (AI) credits for Anthropic Claude and Google Gemini, coding tools, and security audits. "The...
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9 tips for future-proofing your IT leadership career (opens CIO in a new tab)
To succeed today, CIOs must be strategic partners. It’s no longer something to work toward achieving. “What used to be an aspiration, having a seat at the table, that’s now needed,” says George Westerman, a senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, founder of the Global Opportunity...
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9 tips for future-proofing your IT leadership career (opens CIO in a new tab)
To succeed today, CIOs must be strategic partners. It’s no longer something to work toward achieving. “What used to be an aspiration, having a seat at the table, that’s now needed,” says George Westerman, a senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, digital fellow with the MIT Sloan...
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The Story of Billy Evans and ‘Theranos 2.0’ (opens Wired in a new tab)
Elizabeth Holmes’ husband is a major figure in Nathan Fielder’s new documentary. But who is Billy Evans—and is he really working on a second blood-testing company?
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How Elizabeth Holmes Tricked WIRED—and Everyone Else (opens Wired in a new tab)
WIRED was the first magazine to cover Theranos and its enticing billionaire founder. There were warning signs even then.
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US Cybersecurity Job Postings Fall 26%, Hitting Four Year Low (opens Infosecurity Magazine in a new tab)
CyberSN observed a particularly big dip in cybersecurity leadership positions such as CISO and Cybersecurity Director in 2026 compared to 2025
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Nobody brags about lines of code twice (opens CIO in a new tab)
I have spent most of this year on planes. Seven countries, somewhere north of a hundred customer conversations, most of them with teams well past the pilot stage. The thing I keep coming back to is what changed between the January conversations and the July ones. In January and February, as agentic...
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True data sovereignty isn’t where it’s kept, but who has access to it (opens CIO in a new tab)
Regulated industries have been dealing with the equivalent of sovereign data for a long time. And as the geopolitical situation makes it more broadly relevant, it doesn’t make it any easier to deal with. From concerns about the reach of the US CLOUD Act and what telemetry or sensitive business data...
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Cybercriminals favor Microsoft over Apple and Google in brand phishing attacks (opens Help Net Security in a new tab)
Microsoft accounted for 33% of brand impersonation attempts tracked by Check Point Research in the third quarter of 2026, up from 23% in the previous quarter and roughly four times the share of any other brand. Top 10 most impersonated brands in phishing attacks (Source: Check Point) Apple and...
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MITRE ATT&CK v20 Catalogs AI Abuse, MFA Bypass, Water Utility Attacks (opens Security Week in a new tab)
Defenders get 15 new detection strategies, six for Enterprise and nine for ICS, backed by 38 analytics. The post MITRE ATT&CK v20 Catalogs AI Abuse, MFA Bypass, Water Utility Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.
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The password nobody owns: Taking machines to zero standing privilege (ZSP) (opens CSO Online in a new tab)
Ask your infrastructure lead who owns the service account behind the overnight finance batch and notice how long the answer takes. In many of the environments I’ve reviewed, the engineer who set it up left years ago and the password has been sitting in a vault, or sometimes a plain config file...
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The password nobody owns: Taking machines to zero standing privilege (ZSP) (opens CSO Online in a new tab)
Ask your infrastructure lead who owns the service account behind the overnight finance batch and notice how long the answer takes. In many of the environments I’ve reviewed, the engineer who set it up left years ago and the password has been sitting in a vault, or sometimes a plain config file...
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The password nobody owns: Taking machines to zero standing privilege (ZSP) (opens CSO Online in a new tab)
Ask your infrastructure lead who owns the service account behind the overnight finance batch and notice how long the answer takes. In many of the environments I’ve reviewed, the engineer who set it up left years ago and the password has been sitting in a vault, or sometimes a plain config file...
