Adding insult to injury. We always check with primary sources, like the vendor’s website, rather than random emails.

https://www.makeuseof.com/dont-open-any-crowdstrike-repair-emails-theyre-all-fakes/

Don't Open Any CrowdStrike Repair Emails; They're All Fakes

Whenever something big happens in the technology world, scammers are not far behind. The 2024 CrowdStrike outage is no different, and while the issues have been mostly sorted out, scammers are hot on its heels, peddling their latest tricks.

Whenever management says “Oh shinny! Something we could do!” someone needs to add ‘But we probably shouldn’t.”

https://www.ft.com/content/1e8f5778-a592-42fd-80f6-c5daa8851a21

Musk’s X faces questions from watchdog over AI data grab

Social media company’s move to automatically allow user data to train chatbot could breach European privacy rules

Europe’s data protection watchdog is “seeking clarity” on a decision by Elon Musk’s X to allow users’ data to automatically be fed into his artificial intelligence start-up xAI, placing fresh regulatory scrutiny on the social media platform.

X users discovered on Friday that they had been ‘opted-in’ to having their posts to the site, as well as their interactions with its Grok chatbot, be used for “training and fine-tuning” xAI’s systems.

The move was made without first obtaining users’ explicit consent for data sharing. The setting can only be changed on the desktop version of X, so users are currently unable to opt out via its mobile apps.