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A phishing-as-a-service framework called BigBear 2.0 has been used to bypass multi-factor authentication at 258 organizations and steal more than 5,000 Microsoft 365 credentials. [...]
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The DORA framework is built on a premise so foundational that it rarely gets examined. When the research team behind it studied thousands of engineering organizations and identified the metrics that predict software delivery performance, they were measuring what pipelines report. Deployment frequency from deployment logs. Lead time from commit timestamps. Change failure rate from incident records correlated with deployment events. Failed deployment recovery time from incident resolution timestam
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Turning off email images should at least stop the pictures. This week, attackers had a workaround: a scannable QR code built out of text. It still appears, even with images blocked. A small detail, but an annoying one if that was a precaution you were counting on. Elsewhere, a trusted software source delivered code that stole credentials, and a protocol designed for secure network management
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Last week, Claude Fable 5.1 became available on AWS. According to Anthropic, Claude Fable 5.1 delivers frontier intelligence for ambitious tasks across coding, scientific research, and enterprise workflows. Claude Fable 5.1 is built for long-running, high-stakes work that runs for hours and spans many applications. It can own more of a software project on its […]
Modern organizations operate under a persistent tension: they must both discover the future and deliver the present. These two modes of work — exploration and exploitation — are fundamentally different in goals, incentives, risk tolerance, and execution style. Yet both are essential for long-term success. The challenge is that most systems, teams, and incentives are not naturally designed to handle both well at the same time.
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