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Gary Shewan

Gary Shewan

UK

MSFT choose profit over security

Well. This is a long read but a bit 💥💣💥 Whistleblower Says Microsoft Dismissed Warnings About a Security Flaw That Russians Later Used to Hack U.S. GovernmentFormer employee says software giant dismissed his warnings about a critical flaw because it feared losing government business. Russian hackers later used the weakness

Payoff from AI projects is dismal

An interesting report from Lucidworks: “Delays, Implementation Issues, and Unrealized Benefits Challenge Generative AI Initiatives in 2024” Delays, Implementation Issues, and Unrealized Benefits Challenge Generative AI Initiatives in 2024Only 1 in 4 companies have successfully launched AI initiatives in the past 12 months according to second annual generative AI survey

Hacker accesses Tile tool

Sigh Hacker Accesses Internal ‘Tile’ Tool That Provides Location Data to CopsA hacker broke into systems used by Tile, the tracking company, then stole a wealth of customer data and had access to internal company tools.404 MediaJoseph Cox “The hacker says they obtained login credentials for a Tile system

Ooo shiny things

In Technology we always used to think in 3-5 year cycles. Mostly because it involved hardware. It was very handy for total costing and giving a timeframe to determine what was next. To think in terms of a lifecycle. The age of Cloud and SaaS has turned that on its

Security Leaders

This was an interesting listen. I came to it from a European mindset, so had to be a little bit more open minded. Joe Sullivan was the Uber CSO convicted of covering up a breach Former Uber CSO convicted for concealing 2016 data theftPassing off a ransom payment as a