Inside North Korea’s AI job scam

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Inside North Korea's AI job scam A shocking new investigation reveals how North Korean operatives used generative AI tools to pose as remote tech workers, land real jobs, and send stolen salaries—and potentially sensitive data—back to the DPRK. In this episode of Today in Tech, host Keith Shaw speaks with Brett Winterford, VP of Okta Threat Intelligence, about the rise of "wage mole" campaigns, deepfake video interviews, and how companies were tricked into hiring fake personas with stolen identities. Read more

Sponsored by Dell and Snapdragon: What to look for in an AI PC A new generation of AI PCs is helping address long-standing battery life and performance barriers. Learn how investing in these modern PCs today lays the foundation for greater resilience and long-term success in a rapidly changing digital economy. Read more

First Person Meets… Aaron Momin: Empathy is a super power We meet Aaron Momin, a seasoned cybersecurity and cyber risk professional with over 30 years of experience in managing cyber and technology risk. Aaron tells us how he studied computing at college after becoming obsessed with the technology taking to pieces his Compaq PC. He talks about taking that approach into the workplace and benefitting from a really hands on technical grounding, but building his career through knowing how to translate technical to business language - how to connect with people, build the network and drive value for the organization and your peers. Aaron speaks a little about how travel, culture, and moving countries in his childhood helped furnish him with an open mind and an ability to connect, and offers advice on how to build a successful career: never stop learning, and always be building the network. Read more How Azul's Intelligence Cloud can slash Java maintenance tasks and costs Is your enterprise drowning in legacy Java code? In this episode of DEMO, host Keith Shaw sits down with Erik Costlow, Senior Director of Product Management at Azul, to showcase how Azul's Intelligence Cloud is transforming the way engineering teams manage, optimize, and secure Java applications. Read more Use UV to run Python packages and programs without installing Astral's uv utility simplifies and speeds up working with Python virtual environments. But it has some other superpowers, too: it lets you run Python packages and programs without having to formally install them, all by way of one simple command. This video shows off how this can work for anything from a simple one-file program to a full project with a pyproject.toml file. Read more

Not Just Another IT Event - A True CIO Game-Changer The CIO 100 Symposium & Awards blends real-world tech success with executive-level strategy. Read more

Check out our newest show! First Person, with Matt Egan First Person is the show where we meet the most interesting people in IT, and learn from them what makes them tick by focusing only on their firsts. First job, first great boss, first failure or first pet. Learn from interesting people talking about serious things in a not-serious way. Read more

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