February 4, 2022
Security: Attackers Target Intuit Users by Threatening to Cancel Tax Accounts
Threatpost
Just in time for tax season, Intuit is warning customers of a phishing campaign that threatens to close user accounts if they don’t click on a malicious link.

The attacks on the accounting-software specialist that many people use for filing U.S. income tax forms comes as phishers overall are ramping up more creative and stealthy ways to trick users into installing malware or giving up personal data. Read more
Healthcare IT: AI-powered Scheduling Can Boost Clinician Engagement, Reduce Burnout
Healthcare IT News
Research presented this past week at ASA Advance 2022, the Anesthesiology Business Event, found that artificial intelligence-based scheduling can play a significant role in reducing burnout and improving physician engagement.  

Six months after the anesthesiology department at Ochsner Health in New Orleans implemented its new AI scheduling system, the average engagement scores of 60 anesthesiologists increased from 3.3 to 4.2 out of 5, said researchers – one of the largest improvements in the Ochsner Health system. Read More
Homeland Security: Cyberattacks on Critical Infrastructure as the New WMD
Homeland Security Today
Should the acronym WMD, which stands for “Weapons of Mass Destruction,” be updated to “Weapons of Mass Disruption?” I think it is a timely question in this Digital Age as we connect and integrate billions of new digital devices into our lives and business processes and when a cyber-attack against one supply chain provider can lead to cascading effects on entire communities across the globe. Cyberattacks on Critical Infrastructure (CI) can cause mass economic and societal impacts. Fewer strategies than cyber-attacks can offer better plausible deniability and can cause greater anxiety and instability to our society than targeting the systems and networks that enable our day-to-day activities. Consider that 20 years ago terrorists killed 3,000 Americans and disrupted the entire U.S. and global economies with only four planes. Given the growth and ubiquity of technology today we must consider how the exponential growth of cyberattacks on CI might be similarly leveraged by adversaries and criminal actors as Weapons of Mass Disruption, the new WMD. Read More
Transportation: Companies Are Racing to Make Self-Driving Cars. But Why?
Washington Post
The buzz is back for self-driving cars. Not long ago, blown forecasts left investors and tech enthusiasts feeling deflated: In 2016, Ford planned to offer self-driving taxis by 2021, and Lyft claimed it would start doing so even earlier.

But such unfulfilled promises now lie in the rearview mirror. “It’s beginning to feel like 2016 again,” Axios proclaimed last month. During the CES electronics show in January, General Motors, Chinese automaker Geely and autonomous-vehicle developer Mobileye all promised that individuals would be able to buy their own self-driving cars this decade, potentially as soon as 2024. Read More
Human Resources: Workers Say They'll Quit Rather than Navigate Unfair Internal Hiring Practices
HR Dive
Employees are largely looking for their next opportunities outside their current organizations because of perceived unfairness in internal hiring processes, according to a Gartner report published Jan. 27. 

Of 3,000 job candidates surveyed in June 2021, only 33% of those looking for a job in the past 12 months searched within their organization first. Notably, only 18% of 3,500 employees surveyed said they worked in a "high fairness environment,"

To create a more fair organization, Gartner suggested employers use tech to improve awareness of internal opportunities; provide more open access to opportunities through professional coaching; and encourage support for career mobility by giving managers the means to share career pathways with direct reports. Read More
Business & Technology: A Tsunami of IT Project Disasters Is on the Horizon
CIO
It is never the popular position to take in the organization to be the prognosticator of disaster and failure, so I write this missive with the full understanding the contents will fall on deaf ears and the potential benefits of my advice will be found on the pile of “I wish we would have….”  There is a tsunami of project disasters rapidly moving toward the enterprise shoreline and there is not much that can be done to stop it.  

The type of project disasters I am talking about are not those that are over budget and behind schedule, but rather the spectacular failures that disrupt supply chains, delay the reporting of financials, and blow up the careers of seemingly competent executives. Read More