Workers Reject Traditional Advancement for Flexible, Purpose-Driven Career Paths In 2025, professionals are abandoning the traditional career ladder for lateral moves and purpose-driven roles. Employers must adapt their advancement models or risk losing top talent, especially in critical fields like cybersecurity where flexibility matters most.
Hacking Was the Easy Part, Notifying McDonald's the Extremely Difficult Bit A security researcher gained access to McDonald's global marketing portal by changing a single word in its URL, uncovering a slew of additional vulnerabilities. The hard part was notifying the burger giant about the flaws, says self-described ethical hacker "BobDaHacker."
Inotiv Inc. Tells SEC Some Business Operations Disrupted, No Recovery Date in Sight Inotiv, a drug research and development firm, told federal regulators that it's been dealing with a cyberattack since Aug. 8 that has encrypted some IT systems and data, and is disrupting certain business operations. Ransomware gang Qilin has listed the company as a victim on its dark website.
Claude Models May Shut Down Harmful Chats in Some Edge Cases Anthropic introduced a safeguard to its Claude artificial intelligence platform that allows certain models to end conversations in cases of persistently harmful or abusive interactions. The company said it's doing so not to protect human users, but as a way to mitigate risks to the models.
Successful Breaches Renew Fears of Operational Vulnerabilities Across Water Sector Russia is suspected of escalating cyberattacks on European water utilities, including attempts to sabotage Polish and Norwegian water facilities and dams, signaling a broader threat to global critical infrastructure as state-backed actors exploit critical OT weaknesses amid global conflict.