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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

Will LLM open source win?

I have always liked the original long form version of 'Jack of all trades'. I may not be a deep expert in a lot of things, but I'll learn enough to ask questions that are linked. I've been reading about Large Language Model (LLM)

Snowflake taking it seriously

June is going to be an interesting month. At the end of the week we saw two huge breaches. Ticketmaster and Santander. Over the weekend they are being linked to the Snowflake platform (Santander not confirmed). Snowflake have immediately engaged Mandiant and Crowdstrike to help investigate and a joint statement

Recall is still bad

Interesting read on Microsoft’s Copilot+ Recall feature. I think I would turn this off in Corporate builds if they insist on releasing it. Recall: Stealing everything you’ve ever typed or viewed on your own Windows PC is now possible.Photographic memory comes to Windows, and is the biggest

Appoint an unqualified CISO?

There’s potentially a controversial discussion here. I don’t know this Senator. I remember from the TikTok hearings I don’t actually trust too many Senators. Some seem a bit mad. Senator lambasts UnitedHealth for picking ‘unqualified’ CISOSimilar cases have resulted in serious sanctions, and they were on a

Meta at it again

I gave up any Meta accounts a while ago. Partly because they’re quite despicable, but also because…it’s just adverts. But this is a really ‘unusual’ way of complying with EU privacy requirements if you want to opt out of Meta using your data for training their GenAI.