September 1, 2023
Security: Golf gear giant Callaway data breach exposes info of 1.1 million
BleepingComputer
Topgolf Callaway (Callaway) suffered a data breach at the start of August, which exposed the sensitive personal and account data of more than a million customers.

In a letter sent to impacted individuals on August 29, 2023, the company explains that an IT system incident that occurred on August 1st has affected the availability of its e-commerce services and exposed certain customer information to an unauthorized entity. The company says that it detected the incident early on and took immediate action to contain it. Read More
Healthcare IT: Safeguarding IoMT and connected devices is an ongoing challenge
Healthcare IT News
Next week at the HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum in Boston, experts specializing in connected health, medical devices, internet of things and clinical engineering will take the stage for a discussion on "IoT, IoMT, and OT: Safeguarding the Connected Hospital."

These IT and infosec leaders, from University of Pennsylvania, UVA Health, Mayo Clinic and other healthcare organizations, will compare notes and share hard-earned perspective about the ongoing challenges of connected medical devices, and how they're developed, deployed and put to use in clinical workflows. Read More
Homeland Security: TSA proposes use of mobile driver’s licenses beyond 2025 REAL ID deadline
Homeland Security Today
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that would allow the continued use of mobile driver’s licenses (mDL) at TSA airport security checkpoints beyond the 2025 REAL ID implementation deadline. This proposed rule would allow for continued use of mDLs at participating TSA checkpoints after May 7, 2025, when passengers will be required to show REAL ID-compliant identification.

The temporary waiver created by this rule would permit federal agencies to continue accepting mDLs for official federal purposes from individuals with a valid and unexpired REAL ID-compliant physical driver’s license or identification card that is issued by REAL ID-compliant states to whom TSA has issued a waiver. TSA intends to issue a subsequent rulemaking to set more comprehensive requirements for mDLs after emerging industry standards and federal guidelines are finalized, and at that time would repeal the waiver provisions established in this rulemaking. Read More
Transportation: Walmart is adding Wing drone deliveries to limited Superstores this year
TechCrunch
Wing is expanding drone deliveries to a pair of Texas-area Walmart Superstores later this year. The Alphabet-owned drone firm says the two offerings will cover a combined 60,000 homes in the greater Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.

The Alphabet X graduate already manages 11 drone hubs in the region. An additional Supercenter location will go online before the end of year. Deliveries include the standard Walmart fare, like groceries and over-the-counter meds (presumably you don’t want prescriptions flying around up there). Read More
Human Resources: Nearly 4 in 10 recruiters lie to candidates during hiring process
HR Dive
Generative AI is prompting employers to hire more people as they search for workers that have the right skills to help scale up AI use, according to recent research from Upwork. Jobs related to generative AI were up more than 1,000% in the second quarter of 2023 on the platform compared to the end of 2022, Upwork said.

The most in-demand skills included ChatGPT, BERT, Stable Diffusion and TensorFlow, among others, according to an Aug. 22 report from Upwork. The fastest-growing searches related to generative AI on Upwork were around AI content creation, as well.

“This sentiment around hiring plus the surge of activity from companies served as strong early indications that businesses are paying significant attention to the opportunities generative AI can provide,” according to the release. Read More
Business & Technology: Tech leaders weigh in on the upside and flipside of generative AI
Harvard Business Review
The typical worker checks their email 77 times and receives 121 new emails each day. While doing that, many are also toggling back and forth between applications, bouncing between pings on apps like Slack and Teams, comments on shared documents, and notifications from an array of company web portals.

It’s no surprise then that today’s workers feel numbed by a fragmented, unpredictable, and overwhelming collection of collaboration tools — trapped by the very things advertised to boost their productivity. They know they’re overloaded and feel exhausted but believe there is little or nothing they can do to slow the onslaught of communication. Read More