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Simple sabotage for software

Erik Bernhardsson

Be worried about the propriety of any decision — raise the question of whether such action as is contemplated lies within the jurisdiction of the group or whether it might conflict with the policy of some higher echelon. You can of course make a series of obviously bad decisions, but you'd get fired quickly. Blame the previous CTO.

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What you need to know about Okta’s security breach

CIO

On October 20, 2023, Okta Security identified adversarial activity that used a stolen credential to gain access to the company’s support case management system. Once inside the system, the hacker gained access to files uploaded by Okta customers using valid session tokens from recent support cases.

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When your AI chatbots mess up

CIO

Hallucinations occur when the data being used to train LLMs is of poor quality or incomplete. Chatbots may assign service tickets incorrectly, describe a problem inaccurately, or disrupt workflows and lead to significant systemic issues—causing data breaches or misallocation of vital resources—that then require human intervention.

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8 data strategy mistakes to avoid

CIO

The proper use of unstructured data will become of increasing importance to IT leaders,” says Kevin Miller, CTO of enterprise software developer IFS. “It They also need to establish clear privacy, regulatory compliance, and data governance policies. Overlooking these data resources is a big mistake.

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LLMs Demand Observability-Driven Development

Honeycomb

Many software engineers are encountering LLMs for the very first time, while many ML engineers are being exposed directly to production systems for the very first time. Some of these things are related to cost/benefit tradeoffs, but most are about weak telemetry, instrumentation, and tooling. Latency is often unpredictable.

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Prioritizing AI? Don’t shortchange IT fundamentals

CIO

Data due diligence Generative AI especially has particular implications for data security, Mann says. Feed in your entire Slack or Teams history and you may end up with responses like, “I’ll work on that tomorrow,” which would be perfectly appropriate from human employees but aren’t what you expect from a gen AI system.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: U.S. Gov’t Unpacks AI Threat to Banks, as NCSC Urges OT Teams to Protect Cloud SCADA Systems

Tenable

Plus, how to cut cyber risk when migrating SCADA systems to the cloud. Develop and implement an AI risk management framework tailored specifically for your organization and its use cases. s cyber agency is warning operational technology (OT) teams to prioritize cybersecurity. Meanwhile, why CISA is fed up with SQLi flaws.