Apple’s platforms are secure by design, but when it comes to authentication, the company seems to be protecting employees more than it protects IT admins. It’s an attack vector just waiting to be exploited — if it hasn’t been already. As noted first by Six Colors, the problem is that administrator and People Manager accounts on Apple Business…
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AI, Compliance, Global Security News, Network Security, Risk Management
Microsoft builds its own AI stack to help wean it from its reliance on OpenAI
Microsoft seems to be meeting OpenAI on its own turf, even as it continues its strategic partnership with the AI darling, with the release of three in-house, commercially-available AI models. MAI-Transcribe-1 (for speech transcription), MAI-Voice-1 (for voice generation), and MAI-Image-2 (for image creation) are now available on Microsoft Foundry and the MAI Playground. These new…
AI, Global Security News
Apple announces the iPhone 17e and a new M4-powered iPad Air
Apple promised a big week of new product introductions and seems ready to deliver. Starting the week off are the iPhone 17e and an iPad Air with a powerful M4 chip. Both systems meet the promises we heard during pre-introduction speculation, but perhaps it is even more impressive that Apple has somehow also managed to offer…
AI, Data Breaches, Global Security News, Risk Management
Weekly Update 492
The recurring theme this week seems to be around the gap between breaches happening and individual victims finding out about them. It’s tempting to blame this on the corporate victim of the breach (the hacked company), but they’re simultaneously dealing with a criminal intrusion, a ransom demand, and class-action lawyers knocking down their doors. They’re…
AI, APAC, Apps, Compliance, Cybersecurity, Europe, Exploits, Global Security News, Government & Policy, Network Security
FTC digs deeper into Microsoft’s bundling and licensing practices
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) seems to be doubling down on its investigation of Microsoft and the tech giant’s potentially shady bundling and licensing practices. According to a Bloomberg report, the federal agency has been issuing civil investigative demands (CIDs) to companies that compete with Microsoft in the business software and cloud computing markets.…
AI, APAC, Apps, Compliance, Cybersecurity, Europe, Exploits, Global Security News, Government & Policy, Network Security
FTC digs deeper into Microsoft’s bundling and licensing practices
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) seems to be doubling down on its investigation of Microsoft and the tech giant’s potentially shady bundling and licensing practices. According to a Bloomberg report, the federal agency has been issuing civil investigative demands (CIDs) to companies that compete with Microsoft in the business software and cloud computing markets.…
AI, Apps, Global Security News, privacy
Apple study shows why we want to control AI
Apple’s latest machine learning research seems to confirm what most of us intuitively know already. It shows that while people are open to using AI, they also want to hang onto their own personal agency and want the decision-making processes used by this intelligent tech to be transparent. Those are some of the conclusions drawn…
AI, Data Breaches, Europe, Global Security News, Network Security
Wyebot: The Increasingly Automated Solution for Wireless Networking
We live in a wireless world, yet it often seems like the technology to manage that world lags significantly behind what we need to keep our people safe. I discovered a company this week called Wyebot that has a unique solution for managing wireless networks. What makes Wyebot different is that it uses an AI-driven,…
AI, Data Breaches, Europe, Global Security News, Network Security, News, Wi-Fi 6, Wi-Fi 6E, wireless network management
Wyebot: The Increasingly Automated Solution for Wireless Networking
We live in a wireless world, yet it often seems like the technology to manage that world lags significantly behind what we need to keep our people safe. I discovered a company this week called Wyebot that has a unique solution for managing wireless networks. What makes Wyebot different is that it uses an AI-driven,…