Computerworld July 21, 2025
Matt Egan

Your weekly round-up of the questions asked by readers of CIO, Computerworld, CSO, InfoWorld, and Network World sees Smart Answers dispense wisdom about how to manage the security risks of AI implementation; the implications of recent legal cases on software support obligations; and how agentic AI will affect the human workforce.

Implementing AI: what’s the risk?

We recently reported about how McDonald’s AI hiring tool’s password ‘123456’ exposed the data of 64M applicants. Not a great day for the fast-food giant, but our readers were lovin’ it. Or at least they read the article in their droves.

We reported that a security flaw in McHire allowed access to sensitive applicant data via default admin credentials and a vulnerable API....

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