Howard Solomon is a Toronto-based freelance reporter who writes on IT and cybersecurity issues.
Howard is a former editor of IT World Canada and Computing Canada. An IT journalist over 30 years, he has also written for ITBusiness.ca and Computer Dealer News. Before that he was a staff reporter at the Calgary Herald and the Brampton (Ontario) Daily Times.
Researchers at Pillar Security say threat actors are accessing unprotected LLMs and MCP endpoints for profit. Here’s how CSOs can lower the risk.
Update to the latest version and monitor for unexpected .git directories in non-repository folders, developers are told.
Researchers at Wiz, who discovered the hole, said it could have led to compromised AWS GitHub repositories.
For hackers, the stolen data would be useless, but authorized users would have a secret key that filters out the fake information.
Critical vulnerability in React library should be treated by IT as they did Log4j - as an emergency, warns one expert.
The tool for creating agents has vulnerabilities, say experts; Google says it will post known issues publicly as it works to address them.
The latest version also executes malicious code during the preinstall phase, and is bigger and faster than the first wave, say researchers.
Goal is to steal Tea tokens by inflating package downloads, possibly for profit when the system can be monetized.