Category: Technology

To put a fine point on it: The Secret Service agents surrounding the Vice President believed they were about to be in a fight to the death to protect the man next in line for presidential succession. I’ve read and written about presidential security and history going back decades, and I can’t think of a […]

Listen to the article 5 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. As many businesses feel the weight of economic slowdown, leaders are trying to swing the pendulum back after an influx of meetings took over employee calendars. They now want workers to have as much heads-down time as […]

Enlarge / AI-generated image of a kid using a computer. Ars Technica New York City Public Schools have blocked access to OpenAI’s ChatGPT AI model on its network and devices, reports educational news site Chalkbeat. The move comes amid fears from educators that students will use ChatGPT to cheat on assignments, accidentally introduce inaccuracies in […]

In the banking industry, robotic process automation (RPA) is the most prevalent technology that has been shaping the future, not only by simplifying processes but also by magnifying security. RPA systems are being used more frequently by banking and financial service companies to create the greatest customer experiences and automate repetitive processes to save on […]

Dive Brief: Following a review of its operations, Amazon is laying off more employees in its retail business, CEO Andy Jassy told employees Wednesday. Jassy said he posted the news publicly after it was leaked. In all, including layoffs confirmed in November, Amazon will “eliminate just over 18,000 roles,” primarily in its Amazon Stores, and […]

In the past 24 hours, the world has learned of serious breaches hitting chat service Slack and software testing and delivery company CircleCI, though giving the companies’ opaque wording—“security issue” and “security incident,” respectively—you’d be forgiven for thinking these events were minor. The compromises—in Slack’s case, the theft of employee token credentials and for CircleCI, […]

If you were to have asked someone back in 2012, what market would have an estimated value of close to U.S. $8 billion in 2022? No one would have guessed that value would be placed on plant-based meat! But according to Business Wire, the global plant-based meat market is today worth a whopping U.S. $7.9 […]

The Russian cyberespionage group known as Turla became infamous in 2008 as the hackers behind agent.btz, a virulent piece of malware that spread through US Department of Defense systems, gaining widespread access via infected USB drives plugged in by unsuspecting Pentagon staffers. Now, 15 years later, the same group appears to be trying a new […]

Breaches aren’t always what they seem and containment isn’t always guaranteed or long lasting. Just ask LastPass. A breach of the password manager’s infrastructure, first detected in August 2022, was declared contained by LastPass CEO Karim Toubba weeks later. By late November, it was very much not contained. While the initial breach occurred in August […]

Dive Brief: Slack said an outside threat actor stole a limited number of employee tokens and used them to gain access to the company’s externally hosted GitHub repository, in a blog post released Saturday.  The company said it was notified of suspicious activity last week, and the investigation found the threat actor had also downloaded […]