Mark Carter
@markcarter.bsky.social
170 followers
1.7K following
29 posts
#CISO #startup founder #engineering #infosec #cloud #machinelearning #sre @vimeo previously: @salesforce @awscloud @tesla @google @paypal *Opinions my own
Posts
Media
Videos
Starter Packs
Mark Carter
@markcarter.bsky.social
· Apr 13
Bank of America Discloses Data Breach After Customers' Documents Disappear, Says Names, Addresses, Account Information and Social Security Numbers Affected - The Daily Hodl
Bank of America says efforts to locate sensitive documents containing personal information on an undisclosed number of customers have failed. The North Carolina-based bank says it is unable to recover...
dailyhodl.com
Mark Carter
@markcarter.bsky.social
· Mar 18
Alphabet in Talks to Buy Cloud Security Firm Wiz for $33 Billion
Alphabet Inc. is in talks to purchase cloud-security company Wiz Inc. for $33 billion, restarting discussions that were called off last summer after extended negotiations, according to people familiar...
www.bloomberg.com
Mark Carter
@markcarter.bsky.social
· Feb 26
TELUS Digital Survey Reveals Enterprise Employees Are Entering Sensitive Data Into AI Assistants More Than You Think
Nearly seven out of 10 (68%) enterprise employees who use generative AI (GenAI) at work say they access publicly available GenAI assistants such as Ch
www.businesswire.com
Mark Carter
@markcarter.bsky.social
· Feb 16
OmniParser V2: Turning Any LLM into a Computer Use Agent - Microsoft Research
Yadong Lu, Senior Researcher; Thomas Dhome-Casanova, Software Engineer; Jianwei Yang, Principal Researcher; Ahmed Awadallah, Partner Research Manager Graphic User interface (GUI) automation requires a...
www.microsoft.com
Mark Carter
@markcarter.bsky.social
· Jan 29
MGM agrees to pay $45 million to victims of 2019 data breach and 2023 ransomware attack
MGM Resorts International agreed to pay $45 million to settle multiple class action lawsuits related to a data breach in 2019 and a ransomware attack the company experienced in 2023.
therecord.media
Mark Carter
@markcarter.bsky.social
· Jan 27
What Is China’s DeepSeek and Why Is It Freaking Out the AI World?
(Bloomberg) -- DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup that’s just over a year old, has stirred awe and consternation in Silicon Valley after demonstrating breakthrough artificial-intelligence models that offe...
www.yahoo.com
Mark Carter
@markcarter.bsky.social
· Jan 10
Towards System 2 Reasoning in LLMs: Learning How to Think With Meta Chain-of-Thought
We propose a novel framework, Meta Chain-of-Thought (Meta-CoT), which extends traditional Chain-of-Thought (CoT) by explicitly modeling the underlying reasoning required to arrive at a particular CoT....
arxiv.org
Mark Carter
@markcarter.bsky.social
· Jan 8
RICTOR Unveils the World's First Amphibious Passenger Flying Motorcycle, Equipped with Automatic Route Planning and Takeoff/Landing System
/PRNewswire/ -- In recent years, the rapid advancement of technology and the growing demand for diversified travel options have brought eVTOL technology into...
www.prnewswire.com
Mark Carter
@markcarter.bsky.social
· Jan 4
Bad Tenable plugin updates take down Nessus agents worldwide
Tenable says customers must manually upgrade their software to revive Nessus vulnerability scanner agents taken offline on December 31st due to buggy differential plugin updates.
www.bleepingcomputer.com
Mark Carter
@markcarter.bsky.social
· Jan 1
Mark Carter
@markcarter.bsky.social
· Dec 30
China-backed hackers breached US Treasury workstations | CNN Business
The US Treasury Department notified lawmakers on Monday that a China state-sponsored actor infiltrated Treasury workstations in what officials are describing as a “major incident.”
www.cnn.com
Mark Carter
@markcarter.bsky.social
· Dec 23
Principal Engineer Roles Framework
I have worked on Amazon S3 for ~12 years and if there is one thing that I have learned, it is that when you run complex systems at scale, you must think deeply about how teams work. It’s not enough to...
www.linkedin.com
Mark Carter
@markcarter.bsky.social
· Dec 15
Convincing a billion users to love passkeys: UX design insights from Microsoft to boost adoption and security | Microsoft Security Blog
Passkeys offer faster, safer sign-ins than passwords. Read Microsoft tips for encouraging users to adopt passkeys for improved security.
www.microsoft.com
Mark Carter
@markcarter.bsky.social
· Dec 5
White House: Salt Typhoon hacked telcos in dozens of countries
Chinese state hackers, known as Salt Typhoon, have breached telecommunications companies in dozens of countries, President Biden's deputy national security adviser Anne Neuberger said today.
www.bleepingcomputer.com
Mark Carter
@markcarter.bsky.social
· Nov 29
Insurance Companies Face $11.3 Million in Fines Due to Cybersecurity Failures | JD Supra
In yet another example of the importance of a robust cybersecurity and data protection system, New York Attorney General (OAG) and the New York State...
www.jdsupra.com