Taco Bell AI, Azure, Scams, AI Emails, IBM, Crowdstrike, Aaran Leyland, and More… – SWN #403
Taco Bell AI, Azure, Scams, AI Emails, IBM, Crowdstrike, I try to be more succinct, Aaran Leyland, and More on the Security Weekly News.
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- 1. Microsoft says massive Azure outage was caused by DDoS attack
- 2. FBI warns of scammers posing as crypto exchange employees
- 3. Proofpoint Email Routing Flaw Exploited to Send Millions of Spoofed Phishing Emails
- 4. AI-generated emails make up 40% of BEC lures, security firm says
- 5. Data breach costs up 10%, driven by staffing shortages, ‘shadow data’
- 6. CrowdStrike Faces Lawsuits From Customers, Investors
- 7. Sitting Ducks DNS attacks let hackers hijack over 35,000 domains
- 8. Taco Bell Is Deploying AI to Screw Up Your Crunchwrap Supreme
- 1. Microsoft Dynamics 365 called out for ‘worker surveillance’
Insight Microsoft Dynamics 365 provides "field service management" that allows customers to monitor mobile service workers through smartphone apps – allegedly to the detriment of their autonomy and dignity.
According to a probe by Cracked Labs - an Austrian nonprofit research group – the software is part of a broader set of applications that disempowers workers through algorithmic management.
The case study [PDF] summarizes how employers in Europe actually use software and smartphone apps to oversee field technicians, home workers, and cleaning staff.
It's part of a larger ongoing project helmed by the group called “Surveillance and Digital Control at Work," which includes contributions from AlgorithmWatch; Jeremias Adams-Prassl, professor of law at the University of Oxford; and trade unions UNI Europa and GPA.
