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Louis Columbus

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Covers:  AI, cybersecurity, machine learning, CRM, ERP, enterprise software, new technologies.
Husband & Dad |Love to teach, travel & write | Writer & conference speaker on AI, cybersecurity, ERP, and zero trust | Love baseball

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Software product marketing and product management leader with experience in marketing management, channel, and direct sales with an emphasis in Cloud, catalog and content management, ERP, MES, and Quality Management systems. Former industry analyst covering CRM, CPQ, product configuration, pricing, and quoting systems. Expertise and insight into marketing and selling integration solutions for CRM, ERP, MES, Quality Management, SCM, and PLM systems. My passion is creating and launching new enter…

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Financial services MFA attack: resets MFA and steals token

Financial services MFA attack: resets MFA and steals token

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MFA verifies who logged in. It has no idea what they do next.

MFA verifies who logged in. It has no idea what they do next.

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GitHub confirms 3,800 repos stolen via poisoned VS Code extension

GitHub confirms 3,800 repos stolen via poisoned VS Code extension

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85% of enterprises run AI agents. Only 5% trust them enough to ship

85% of enterprises run AI agents. Only 5% trust them enough to ship

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Vercel breach exposes the OAuth gap most security teams cannot detect

Vercel breach exposes the OAuth gap most security teams cannot detect

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OpenClaw has 500,000 instances and no enterprise kill switch

OpenClaw has 500,000 instances and no enterprise kill switch

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How Global Manufacturers Like BorgWarner Use MOM to Unify Supply Chain and Production Execution

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By Louis Columbus
| 3DS Blog
Your procurement team in Stuttgart just locked in a new resin supplier to offset the latest round of tariffs. The substitution saves 12% on raw material costs. But the engineering change notice hasn’t reached the production line in Puebla, where operators are still running the old formulation. Quality flags the batch three shifts later when test results fall outside specification. Two days of production go to rework. The savings from the supplier switch evaporate in a single weekend.
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7,000 Langflow servers are under attack. LangGraph and LangChain have the same holes

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By Louis Columbus
| VentureBeat Verified
Your AI agent did exactly what it was designed to do. The framework underneath it just handed an attacker a shell on the box that holds your OpenAI key, your database credentials, and your CRM tokens. That is not a hypothetical. In a few months, three of the most widely deployed AI agent frameworks each turned a known, ordinary bug class into a way through. Check Point Research chained a SQL injection in LangGraph’s SQLite checkpointer to full remote code execution.
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Copilot searched your mailbox. LiteLLM handed out admin keys. Run this 5-check audit before your stack is next

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By Louis Columbus
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Two AI tools broke in the same way in the same two weeks, and four research teams proved it. The pattern underneath every disclosure is one sentence: enterprise AI accepts external input with no trust boundary. On June 15, Varonis disclosed SearchLeak (CVE-2026-42824), a proof-of-concept exfiltration chain in Microsoft 365 Copilot Enterprise Search. A victim clicks a crafted microsoft.com URL, Copilot searches their mailbox, and the data leaves through a Bing SSRF.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Writing for the Arizona Daily Wildcat while at the University of Arizona.

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Why did you become a journalist?

I love to write and learn, it's a perfect balance.
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