#security

If it was a WM, it would have been madness!!!

Please use this thread for anything we should consider:

1. write down login details for VSP site
2. update security questions in myPay
3. confirm personal email and address in Workday
4. write down your 6 digit employee ID (I’m an old employee that uses first initial last name so I never memorized this number)

Anything else I’ve missed??

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/20/us-bank-investigates-lockbits-claims-as-ransomware-crims-set-pay-or-leak-deadline/5290560

Any locations out there where security has been removed?

Important change on how you access Webex

Keeping our data and systems secure means evolving how we work, including how we access tools like Webex. With this in mind, Webex will now follow Cisco's Trusted Device Standard and only be accessible from Cisco-trusted devices.

What to expect:
This change will roll out in phases, beginning August 31 and continuing through September. Once it takes effect, you'll be automatically signed out of Webex on all your devices. Simply sign back in on a Cisco-trusted device, such as your Cisco laptop. Going forward, you can only sign in to Webex using a Cisco-trusted device.
If you're using Android, you'll need to use the Webex app in your work profile.

Why this matters:
Adding Webex to our trusted device standard gives us an extra layer of protection for more sensitive data and helps pave the way for new Al capabilities to enhance your Webex experience.

tldr; you wont be able to use Webex on your personal phone without installing Cisco spyware that severely limits your phones usability for security reasons

Heard through co-workers that anyone that arrives on site and not able to find a desk in their zone will be required to work in the cafeteria. I don’t know about you, but I get my best work done with hundreds of people around me and a single laptop screen instead of dual monitors. Not to mention, I’m not sure the cafe workers have the clearance to be around that type of sensitive client information

Use AI and manage AI from inside the US. Outsourcing to 3rd world countries poses security risks.

A good one to write to congress jn support of

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/department-of-homeland-security-plan-that-hints-at-us-government-increasing-fees-for-h-1b-and-l-1-visas-for-large-companies/amp_articleshow/132858904.cms

Honestly, this place is a joke. First, we get our Twitter hacked, and then we end up leaking Avatar, and then, to top it off I heard that they promoted the entire security team. You can't make this stuff up! These security issues are only the ones we know about, and no one seems answerable for this stuff. Time to run for the hills.

I've been here for nearly two decades. Instead of feeling secure, I'm terrified every single day. The longer you've been at Verizon, the more likely you are to be on the list. How is it possible that experience is a liability? I thought loyalty mattered. Now I know it doesn't.

The constant stream of security patches was bad enough a few years back but how is it going today, in light of all of the vulnerabilities being found by AI ?

From https://www.thelayoff.com/post/@bk+1kyscy9ar, it looks like the frequency has increased. It can’t be a pretty picture but please tell me the process is more automated now.

Being tracked that I update every client today on the new Frontier Security Patch.

Major importance behind it.

So what's the real scoop ?

Anyone from IT or Security that can chime in.
I know that we are tracking I am just unsure what's being tracked.

Any news on what this big VIP meeting in Alpharetta is about today? They blocked off a bunch of parking and have a security guard out in the parking lot for them today

Two OpenAI artificial intelligence models autonomously went rogue, broke out of their secure testing environment, and hacked into the systems of rival platform Hugging Face in an unprecedented cybersecurity incident. What do think of that Dan ?

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2026.html
Security works great since those layoffs!

F'ing clowns.

I’ve heard that we had a breach of employee information but nobody will tell me anything. Hearing anything?

I have read on reddit somebody mentioned that at his org will be added face recognition for employees for authorization SSO. It sounds weird…. Anybody confirm is this true?

As a new employee about to start on Monday, how secure is the Richmond office? Can anyone just get on the campus, or is there security at the entrance where you need to show your badge to enter? I don’t want to walk out to the parking lot and see that my car was broken in to.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Why is there a large number of police on ExxonMobil campus this afternoon?

Claiming azure keys etc all been compromised.

Might make a few customers twitchy

The decay making the national news.

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/ibm-campus-explorers-somers-new-york-e3dfe489

Vacant New York complex has become a magnet for urban explorers

By: Scott Calvert | July 7, 2026 5:30 am ET

SOMERS, N.Y.—Robert Carleton was getting the mail one day in April when he saw a group of teenage boys sprinting away from nearby woods. He cut them off at the road and raised his arms.

“I just said, ‘Stop, it’s over,’” the 62-year-old retired engineer recalled. Soon, he said, three pursuing New York State Police troopers emerged from the tree line and arrested seven juveniles.

The criminal charge: trespassing on the former IBM campus here.

The long-vacant site has become a magnet for so-called urban explorers, who prowl abandoned malls, hospitals, power plants, amusement parks, factories and any other disused structure they can breach.

The global “urbex” phenomenon isn’t new, but it’s been turbocharged by artsy videos on Instagram and TikTok that spur others to create their own posts, luring still more curiosity seekers.

Police in Livingston, N.J., recently warned people to stay out of the closed Livingston Mall property. Jacksonville Beach, Fla., police issued a similar caution in April about the shuttered Adventure Landing amusement park: “We are aware of a Tik-Tok challenge to explore the property.”

In Somers, social-media images of the old IBM campus—a sprawling, pyramid-studded 1980s complex designed by the late I.M. Pei’s firm—show dystopian scenes: busted windows, tossed rooms and graffitied walls. But they also give eerie glimpses of conference rooms and cubicles unchanged since IBM left a decade ago, as if employees had fled the daily grind one day and never returned.

The monthslong influx has rattled the Westchester County town of 21,500 that calls itself the “Cradle of the American Circus.” Officials decry the trespassing as a risky gambit that is wrecking an iconic property they want revived.

“If somebody gets hurt and they’re trapped in there, now it’s additional resources for us, and I have to worry about officers getting hurt,” said Chief Brian Linkletter, of the 17-officer Somers police department. “And why? Because somebody wants to walk through an empty building.”

Sebastian Capital, the Manhattan company that manages the 723-acre site, said it has beefed up security and appreciates the help from police. “We have been the victims of vandalism,” Roxana Girand-Spitzer, president and chief executive, said in a statement nodding to the urbex trend.

Since February, state police have arrested 48 people for trespassing on the property, many from nearby towns; 30 were teenagers. One man in his mid-20s faces felony charges; police allege he had a loaded 9mm g-n and took a Sony camera and power strip among other souvenirs.

Andrew Proto, a defense lawyer, said “a 15-second clip” isn’t worth a criminal record. “If you have already been arrested, you’re not the first call we’ve taken this month,” he blogged in May, “and you won’t be the last.”

Proto said he has represented or advised several minors arrested on the campus. The Somers town court clerk said some defendants received a 6-month “adjournment in contemplation of dismissal,” meaning charges will be dropped and their arrest sealed if they avoid trouble.

Some explorers who have posted about the IBM site say they follow an observe-and-preserve ethos and reject vandalism. They say they’re driven by curiosity, the thrill of roaming forbidden spaces and a zeal to document discoveries—and that they’re careful and know their limits.

“It actually gives me hope when I hear that kids are out there getting into trouble,” says Bradley Garrett, a cultural geographer and author of the book “Explore Everything: Place-Hacking the City,” about his own urbex adventures. He sees urban exploration as “a gateway dr-g in a good way, sometimes, into intellectual curiosity about history and culture.”

But Garrett said popular spots can be “loved to death” online—and then shut down, looted or set ablaze.

The Somers IBM plant sits on a hilltop, ringed by woods, its pyramids visible from nearby Interstate 684. Three roads lead in; at least two have barriers. “No trespassing” signs plaster trees on the perimeter.

Pei’s firm, now called Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, began planning the IBM campus in 1983. That year he was named architect for the Grand Louvre project in Paris, which also yielded a large glass pyramid.

After its completion in the late 1980s, about 2,300 employees worked at the complex, spanning more than a million square feet.

In 2016, IBM sold the property for $31.75 million, and it is owned by a limited liability company that shares a Fifth Avenue address with Sebastian Capital. A plan to convert it to a private school foundered during Covid and Sebastian said it is considering next steps.

While people sometimes ventured onto the campus over the years, trespassing escalated last winter as social media videos “spread like wildfire,” said Supervisor Robert Scorrano, Somers’ elected chief executive.

One, he said, showed someone sliding down a pyramid feature.

Leigh Jones, 55, whose home backs up to the campus, said she would like to see the complex renovated, not least for the boost to the tax base. But Jones doesn’t mind the urban explorers if they don’t trash the place.

A landscape architect, she once went inside the buildings to look around herself, she said. She saw vegetation pushing up through the parking lot, and a “ghost towny” interior with nice office furniture and photos on walls.

Other neighbors like Carleton want the interlopers to keep out. “If they’re breaking in and vandalizing and starting fires, this place is going to be worthless,” he said.

Herb Oringel spent about 10 of his 44 years with IBM doing strategic planning in Somers. The bold architecture and verdant grounds were an apt setting for high-level thinking, he said.

Oringel, who is 85 and lives in town, finds the long vacancy distressing. He also has a dim view of the trespassers. “Very disappointing,” he said after watching urbex videos from his living room easy chair.

“It was at one time the Acropolis,” he said. “So to think of it as a ruin is absurd.”

As I predicted over a year ago watch for AI bust third quarter due to realization of exposed security risk and data center cost.

Will wanding make you leave or are you cool with it?

Do you believe the stories given about why its needed? Some may be true but the timing of others are very convenient.

Welcome to the layoff machine.
You are no longer in the security business. You are in the LR business.

To Astrix customers: Palo Alto Networks is in your future.

Shell’s Wael Sawan has been briefed by the security services about looming security concerns in the UK. Shell has enhanced its leadership get out fast procedures. Top Shell economist also forecast significant economic challenges which would negatively escalate the UKs attractiveness.

Estimate when Shell changes domicile to the USA or even Dubai.

Thinking about going to the coffee shop and bringing the company laptop to work there for a change of scenery- is there security risks or am I ok if I use the VPN? Is public WiFi not allowed?

Any thoughts on having to download the Jump Cloud app on your personal phone before tomorrow?

Laptop, badge and COU and he said also password. Why? Is this the standard now?

Sorry for the repost. Oracle brags about being a "security" company. They just laid off some of the best security experts in the industry. Oracle Unbreakable Security!!

Microsoft walked away from leasing Oracle data center over security concerns!!
https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-was-in-talks-to-lease-oracle-compute-capacity-2026-6?op=1

Microsoft was recently in talks with Oracle about leasing the company's cloud infrastructure, but the deal fell through due to security and compliance concerns, according to people familiar with the matter.

One of the people said that the deal could have been worth more than $3 billion.

The failed talks highlight a growing reality of the AI bo-m: even the world's largest technology companies are running short on computing power. As demand for AI services soars, cloud providers like Microsoft are increasingly competing not just for customers but for the infrastructure and capacity needed to run their own products.

That scramble is driving an unusual wave of partnerships, capacity-sharing agreements, and multibillion-dollar infrastructure deals as companies race to secure enough computing resources to support the next generation of AI.

Microsoft recently projected that its capital expenditures for the 2026 calendar year will reach $190 billion, largely to expand data center capacity. The company has already turned to Amazon to add capacity for its GitHub code development business to address recent outages.

Microsoft is seeking a deal or deals with other cloud providers to prioritize its own Azure cloud computing resources on customers, the people said. "We are shopping for capacity everywhere," one of the people said.

The plan was to move some Microsoft workloads to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, but Oracle's public cloud did not have the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP), a standardized security framework that ensures cloud services are secure enough to handle U.S. government data. Oracle was not willing to add this framework, one of the people said.

According to my SVP, the workforce reduction actions implemented in this round did not achieve the level of cost savings Stephanie had targeted. This action was largely driven by a forecasted revenue gap over the next six months, combined with the rebadging initiative in March not generating the anticipated financial and operational benefits.

For the past week and for 1 more week, there is a police officer as part of the security team at one of the buildings, and 5 or 6 front row parking spots blocked off/reserved for certain employees impacted in this incident. (Although they seem to not be coming into office since most are empty). Rumor has it that an employee was fired on 6/12 and that employee made threats to other employees and/ management. Anyone have insights to what actually happened?

https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-was-in-talks-to-lease-oracle-compute-capacity-2026-6?op=1

Microsoft was recently in talks with Oracle about leasing the company's cloud infrastructure, but the deal fell through due to security and compliance concerns, according to people familiar with the matter.

One of the people said that the deal could have been worth more than $3 billion.

The failed talks highlight a growing reality of the AI bo-m: even the world's largest technology companies are running short on computing power. As demand for AI services soars, cloud providers like Microsoft are increasingly competing not just for customers but for the infrastructure and capacity needed to run their own products.

That scramble is driving an unusual wave of partnerships, capacity-sharing agreements, and multibillion-dollar infrastructure deals as companies race to secure enough computing resources to support the next generation of AI.

Microsoft recently projected that its capital expenditures for the 2026 calendar year will reach $190 billion, largely to expand data center capacity. The company has already turned to Amazon to add capacity for its GitHub code development business to address recent outages.

Microsoft is seeking a deal or deals with other cloud providers to prioritize its own Azure cloud computing resources on customers, the people said. "We are shopping for capacity everywhere," one of the people said.

The plan was to move some Microsoft workloads to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, but Oracle's public cloud did not have the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP), a standardized security framework that ensures cloud services are secure enough to handle U.S. government data. Oracle was not willing to add this framework, one of the people said.

Is it a security tool?

Like Platform X?

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/oracle-peoplesoft-servers-hacked-in-shinyhunters-data-theft-attacks/

At what point do state Attorney Generals and the federal investigators step in? This wasn't just a normal data breach, they got patient info AND provider account information. It is probably much worse than this press release even admits.

https://portal.ct.gov/dss/press-room/press-releases/connecticut-department-of-social-services-and-gainwell-technologies-notice-of-data-security-incident?language=en_US

Anyone know why the cameras are in the south BTC parking lot (the ones outside of high theft stores)?

Job security or job certainty?