How Leading CISOs are Getting Budget Approval
It’s budget season. Once again, security is being questioned, scrutinized, or deprioritized. If you’re a CISO or security leader, you’ve likely found yourself explaining why your program matters, why a…
20 Popular npm Packages With 2 Billion Weekly Downloads Compromised in Supply Chain Attack
Multiple npm packages have been compromised as part of a software supply chain attack after a maintainer’s account was compromised in a phishing attack. The attack targeted Josh Junon (aka…
Software packages with more than 2 billion weekly downloads hit in supply-chain attack
Hackers planted malicious code in open source software packages with more than 2 billion weekly updates in what is likely to be the world’s biggest supply-chain attack ever. The attack,…
45 Previously Unreported Domains Expose Longstanding Salt Typhoon Cyber Espionage
Threat hunters have discovered a set of previously unreported domains, some going back to May 2020, that are associated with China-linked threat actors Salt Typhoon and UNC4841. “The domains date…
Former Republican Senator Cory Gardner Becomes The Cable Industry’s Top Lobbyist
Cory Gardner, who spent a decade as a Republican senator, has been freshly announced as the CEO of the NCTA–The Internet & Television Association–the cable industry’s biggest lobbying organization. As…
Nobel laureate David Baltimore dead at 87
Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist and former Caltech president David Baltimore—who found himself at the center of controversial allegations of fraud against a co-author—has died at 87 from cancer complications. He…
In court filing, Google concedes the open web is in “rapid decline”
Is the web thriving or faltering? Google has an unexpected take in a new legal filing. Google is heading back to court soon in hopes of convincing a judge that…
Former WhatsApp security boss in lawsuit likens Meta’s culture to a “cult”
Over the past year, Meta has blanketed TV screens around the world with commercials touting the privacy of Whatsapp, its encrypted messenger with a monthly user base of 3 billion…
UK Age Verification Data Confirms What Critics Always Predicted: Mass Migration To Sketchier Sites
New data from the UK’s age verification rollout provides hard evidence of what internet governance experts have been warning about for years: these laws don’t protect children—they systematically drive users…
US Open Tells Broadcasters Not To Broadcast Trump Being Booed At The US Open
Good lord, here comes another act of preemptive cowardice in service of ensuring the most powerful man in the world enjoys his appearance before a crowd he can’t control or…