Jeff Burt is a journalist at The Register. With over three decades of experience, he has focused on technology topics since 2000, covering areas such as software development, open source software, and cybersecurity, including themes like AI and machine learning. He has been featured in various prominent outlets including Techstrong.ai, DevOps.com, and Cloud Native Now.
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By: Rebecca Spiegel, Jeff Burt, Christian Romming, Thierry Carrez, Rob Zuber
Threat actors exploited a critical flaw in the SimpleHelp RMM software to compromise AI coding assistants and steal information from code repositories and databases to cloud accounts and cryptocurrency wallets, Blackpoint Cyber says.
By: Jeff Burt
The developer threat from indirect prompt injections. Researchers with Mozilla's 0DIN group showed how agentic coding tools like Claude Code can be manipulated into silently compromising a developer's system.
By: Rebecca Spiegel, Thierry Carrez, Jeff Burt, Christian Romming, Rob Zuber
Novee security researchers uncover Cordyceps, another supply chain threat that exposes inherent weaknesses in the CI/CD pipeline. It's a multi-chain exploit, which makes it difficult to detect, and can be abused by an unauthenticated user to hijack workloads and control repositories.
A decade after IBM put its five-qubit quantum processor into the cloud – and by doing so, making the IBM Quantum Experience accessible to the public – the quantum computing industry finds itself solidly in the Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum era. Multiple systems are available in the cloud – we wrote last month about plans for
By: Jeff Burt
Argo CD has become a widely popular open source tool for developers who use GitOps for deploying cloud-native applications to Kubernetes.
By: Rob Zuber, Christian Romming, Jeff Burt, Thierry Carrez, Rebecca Spiegel
Two North Korea-sponsored threat groups, including one behind the infamous Contagious Interview campaign targeting developers, is expanding the reach of their PolinRider supply chain campaign to include open source ecosystems like npm, Packagist, Go modules, and Chrome Store.
By: Jeff Burt
By: on A security flaw in GitHub's months-old GitHub Agentic Workflows allows attackers to use an indirect prompt injection to trick the AI
By: Jeff Burt
By: on A security flaw found in six popular AI coding agents can let attackers abuse a decades-old feature in Unix to trick an AI agent into giving them control of a developer's system.
By: Jeff Burt
By: on Hallucinations have been an ongoing problem since OpenAI first introduced its ChatGPT chatbot in November 2022, highlighting generative
By: Jeff Burt
There are any number of ways to track the expanding development of quantum computing, from the strid ...
