Nowadays data breaches aren't rare shocks—they're a weekly drumbeat. From leaked customer records to stolen source code, our ...

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They’re saying R.I.P. on the high seas. Smooth sailing isn’t guaranteed while vacationing on a luxury cruise liner. And in times of sudden crisis — such as a death aboard the boat — crew members ...

If you’re following the buzz around the Social Security Fairness Act (SSFA), you might be wondering how it affects your own retirement. In a nutshell, the SSFA just made more than 3 million public ...

At least 187 code packages made available through the JavaScript repository NPM have been infected with a self-replicating worm that steals credentials from developers and publishes those secrets on ...

A new package scam started this summer, and it's likely to gain momentum as people start ordering their iPhone Airs and buying gifts for the holidays. Picture getting a package delivered to your front ...

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A report found hackers can exploit an autorun feature in Cursor. The danger is "significant," but there's an easy fix. Cursor uses AI to assist with code-editing. A new report has uncovered what it ...

The Secret Service has its hands full combating an unprecedented level of political threats, an issue underscored in the wake of the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. While the ...

A weakness in the Cursor code editor exposes developers to the risk of automatically executing tasks in a malicious repository as soon as it’s opened. Threat actors can exploit the flaw to drop ...

At least 18 popular JavaScript code packages that are collectively downloaded more than two billion times each week were briefly compromised with malicious software today, after a developer involved ...

A new report out today from application security posture management company Apiiro Ltd. looks at the impact of artificial intelligence code assistants in a Fortune 20 enterprise and highlights a ...