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Anybody frustrated yet?   Progress Software (MOVEit) has just revealed a 3rd new critical SQL injection vulnerability affecting its managed file transfer web application tracked as CVE-2023-36934, with a CVSS score of 9.8. It allows remote attackers to by…lnkd.in/gxMkzB7k

There has been a lot of recent and some hysterical speculation about whether G-AI will take over the planet, worry that Bots will suddenly spring from non-sentient predictive text interpreters to efficient learning machines that can consume millions x the…lnkd.in/gMepEiNX

If you have succeeded in getting your board to go along with and fund a new, Zero-Trust strategy, which of your existing team can participate and assure that the principles and best practices are adhered to through implementation? The Gallup Clifton Stre…lnkd.in/gr4TBwBc

SBFN Anyone??? That's Smarter, Better, Faster, Now. Some folks are under the impression that the MOVEit attack was NOT a Cyber-Fail. Zero-day. No time to prepare. Never seen before. Victimized. Fate. Au contraire mon frère, as we know that the Cl0p ran…lnkd.in/g-af3QnU

SBFN Anyone??? That's Smarter, Better, Faster, Now. Cybersecurity Chronicles is a new form of LinkedIn Blog media built on LinkedIn's new rules for posting, which limits not only the number of characters a post may contain, but also the number of posts…lnkd.in/gsTSZsKX

Education is at risk and so is Cybersecurity.   We underfund programs to teach fundamentals to K-12 and to teachers who should be able to transfer that knowledge to students in High School, but can't. We now have an abundance of Cybersecurity programs at…lnkd.in/gvbrFcfT

Anybody up for a little Pascal thinking on the human factor?   Blaise Pascal was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and philosopher, whose ideas have led to some of the world’s most important inventions. Among them, the adding machine, ca…lnkd.in/gky6ATub

Example? In 2022, 62% of organizations experienced malicious email or cloud account compromise, a serious threat costing companies millions of dollars each year. While account compromise usually begins with exposed credentials, it’s often the first ste…lnkd.in/gQ-5SbYj

For sale: baby shoes, never worn An example of flash fiction, as allegedly practiced by Earnest Hemingway in 1906 to earn a $10 bet among his fellow writers for writing a short story in only 6 words. In cybersecurity, we could use a little more flash r…lnkd.in/gH8hAJUd

For sale: baby shoes, never worn An example of flash fiction, as allegedly practiced by Earnest Hemingway in 1906 to earn a $10 bet among his fellow writers for writing a short story in only 6 words. In cybersecurity, we could use a little more flash r…lnkd.in/ghZ-pQqH

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In cleaning out my ‘move’ boxes, I ran across some vulnerabilities reports from 7 years ago, I couldn't help noticing that the highest ranked, unpatched exposures for this client were like most back then, with Flash, and Java leading the way, while Micros…lnkd.in/gzEHtVUb

The risks to generative Ai are not just in their Large Language Models (LLMs), but rather they lie in wait within their broader, collective open-source ecosystem. There is trust boundary risk in the prompt injection itself, which can easily bypass filte…lnkd.in/gdAsV-Fy

So, as I sit at my desk this glorious 4th of July desert morning, the almost full moon slinks behind McDowell Mountain and the new sun claws its way over Four Peaks to light the landscape in a way I've not found in any other place, I notice that The Natio…lnkd.in/gHVWPwhu

As we have seen repeatedly over the last 5 years or so, a simple data breach can result in the loss of billions of dollars in assets, revenue and shareholder value and cause intense reputational damage, extensive lying and outright fraud.   It can also re…lnkd.in/g8N_Huhm

Somebody in the community was somehow offended by something I wrote at some time in the past and LinkedIn is banning my posts to certain groups. If you want to be sure you get the daily opinion and all the other stuff we produce for free, please follow m…lnkd.in/ge2d9SAV

Where could AI have extraordinary impact in IT? Where could it enable processes that were deemed mountainous and impossible in the past? Where is the erosion of institutional knowledge of architecture, interoperability, and dependencies most critical in t…lnkd.in/g86GZTWi

SolarWinds has disclosed that the SEC notified top executives of pending legal action over the company’s landmark data breach, and the company’s CISO is among those who received a notice.   Jamil Farshchi, the highly respected CISO at Equifax, said on Lin…lnkd.in/gM5dmvcH

As CyberEd.io faculty, both Brian Barnier and Prachee Kale are invaluable members and their work is inspiring. And, as much as I respect, admire and enjoy their view that allowing another dimension to expand our intelligence around the manag…lnkd.in/gQxp7Nmj

“I’d be a member of one true religion, the Jedi order.” Trust boundaries in open source development help developers establish zones in which they can have confidence in the security and reliability of an application in development. But, as devo’s enable…lnkd.in/gXrgkyyq