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When phishing meets executive search, the only qualification required is a sufficiently low IQ — on either side.

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Apparently, word of the industry’s predicament is spreading quickly, and so small-time, pimply-faced scammers, who go by names like Courtney Nierengarten, Victor Johnson, or Jennifer Hang and adorn themselves with titles such as “Board Executive Search Partner” or “Executive Recruiter”, get the idea to go fishing for a bit. In an email that appears to have been tweaked with AI to produce...

Chloe Mayo from Synquery on knowledge harvesting

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Hey Chloe Mayo, Head of Strategy & Ops at Synquery, I assumed that ignoring your repeated “Strategic Consulting Opportunity” emails to my private account would be a sufficiently clear signal to anyone with even modest social and cognitive skills: I have zero interest in engaging with you or your company. Since that message apparently didn’t make it from your inbox to basic inference, here it...

See you at ASCON 2025?

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Next week I’ll be in Busan/KOREA with my much-appreciated colleague Felix Roth for the 2025 KSNC/ASCON conference on “All about Advanced Vehicles.” We’ll be talking about the challenges and practical ways to run a global CSMS that covers different automotive cybersecurity regulations across the various markets. The automotive industry has reached the point where cybersecurity can no longer be...

Wallboxen, CRA und EU RED

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A. Wallboxen nach dem EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA, Regulation EU 2024/2847) Anwendungsbereich des CRA Der Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) gilt gem. Art. 2 Abs. 1 CRA für auf dem Markt bereitgestellte Produkte mit digitalen Elementen, deren bestimmungsgemäßer Zweck oder vernünftigerweise vorhersehbare Verwendung eine direkte oder indirekte logische oder physische Datenverbindung mit einem Gerät oder...

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