Column We all know that the Rust language has become much more popular. By Slashdata’s count, Rust users have nearly tripled in the past 24 months. Mark Russinovich, Microsoft Azure’s CTO, tweeted that “it’s time to halt starting any new … Continue reading →

In Uber’s last update about its recent hack, the ride-sharing company blamed the Lapsus$ hacking group for its security fiasco. Lapsus$, Uber added, had also breached Microsoft, Cisco, Samsung, Nvidia, and Okta. Over the last week, they’d also…Read More

Innovation Over the last 20 years, the OSI has been the guardian of open-source licenses, but now it will also address non-open-source licenses more and AI’s role in software development. In the beginning, all software was “free software” and “open…Read … Continue reading →

Jit, a startup programming security company, dreams of being a top security power. To help make those dreams a reality, Jit recently hired Simon Bennetts, the founder of the world’s most popular web app security scanner, Open Web Application Security…Read … Continue reading →

Innovation Chainguard takes a new approach to building a container Linux with all the security you’d need already baked in. There are many Linux distributions designed expressly for containers. Even Microsoft has one, Common Base Linux (CBL)-Mariner.…Read More

AT&T Alien Labs has discovered a new Linux malware program targeting endpoints and IoT devices. Usually, Linux malware targets servers and cloud instances. You know, where there’s big-time CPU horsepower to turn to cryptocurrency mining. Shikitega,…Read More