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Ever use one of those mobile food delivery apps — only to realize your delivery person isn’t who you expected? There’s a lesson here about identity, authentication, and what happens when the best laid tech plan meets human beings.
27 days ago
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The IT community is freaking out about AI data poisoning. For some, it’s a sneaky backdoor into enterprise systems as it surreptitiously infects the data LLM systems train on — which then get sucked into enterprise systems.
about 2 months ago
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The New York Attorney General’s office sued Citibank for failing to reimburse customers victimized by fraud, raising serious issues all enterprises must figure out. When should a customer be reimbursed for fraud? And at what point do a customer’s actions come into play?
about 2 months ago
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One of the oldest and most frustrating rules about email spam is that the unsubscribe link never works — all it does is confirm your email address is active. But what if the unsubscribe failure is caused by something far more problematic?
2 months ago
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It’s no secret that enterprise IT in recent years has been disappointed in corporate clouds. But in general they’ve not done anything about it. That could soon change.
3 months ago
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As generative AI fever continues to mesmerize enterprise executives, those same execs are insisting that IT somehow make it happen.
3 months ago
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When Google rolled out its latest biometrics specs for Android devices, its top-level ‘strong security’ option allowed “a spoof and imposter acceptance rate not higher than 7%.” Most biometrics specialists argue that’s much too high; a target of 1% is far more realistic.
5 months ago
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The idea that vendors lie a lot is, as the saying goes, “a tale as old as time.” But to suggest vendors are so persuasive because they actually believe their falsehoods — now, that’s intriguing.
6 months ago
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Have you recently been on a video call, muted and then said something nasty about a client — or maybe even the boss? Were you confident the mute button was protecting your secret? You shouldn’t have been.
almost 2 years ago
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CVS Pharmacy has a widely used app and site to schedule various vaccinations, including for COVID-19. The problem? It has a glitch that allows customers to schedule appointments that are then cancelled without explanation.
about 2 years ago
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Ever since its layoffs last summer and a plunge in quality, Rackspace lets
customers in — but won’t let them out. A cautionary tale of a business that had
to fight like heck to escape.
about 2 years ago