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 cloud computing, software development, cybersecurity, and machine learning. He has been featured in prominent outlets including The Register, Techstrong.ai, and DevOps.com.
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An attack using the technique on the open source coding agent’s Console hub exposed third party API keys from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google
By: Jeff Burt
Security researchers armed with powerful frontier AI models detected two critical vulnerabilities in PHP, the language that much of the internet runs on. It's put 70% of websites at risk and organizations are being urged to quickly apply fixes.
By: Jeffrey Burt
TL;DR — Key Takeaways A massive Interpol-led crackdown across 21 African countries and the U.S. shut down 10,909 malicious networks and resulted in 1,462 arrests.
Attackers compromised a version of LiteLLM this week by injecting malicious code into all seven of its published Python wheels on PyPI, delivering a package that included an infostealer to exfiltrate credentials and secrets and a remote access trojan (RAT) that could let bad actors run arbitrary code on infected machines. The compromised version –
By: Jeff Burt
There's a lot of innovation happening in the quantum computing field as it moves closer to the promised land of practical, scalable fault-tolerant systems. That said, reducing errors in calculations remains a core challenge that needs to be solved. Qubits are extremely fragile, can easily fall apart and lose their coherence, and a quantum system that makes too many errors is not useful.
TL;DR — Key Takeaways Anthropic's Claude AI bypassed a paywall to access publicly available aggregate vote counts from Georgia's Secretary of State, raising fresh concerns about AI agents taking unauthorized actions.
The evolving Gheist campaign uses stolen GitHub tokens and malicious Actions workflows to extract repository secrets and cloud credentials. While GitHub protections have blocked observed attacks on public repositories, private environments remain exposed.
It's a tale of two companies when discussion turns to Oracle and the burgeoning AI industry. The longtime tech giant tends at the same time to
The critical PHP2Shell vulnerabilities are being exploited in the wild, with CISA confirming this by added the flaws to its KEV catalog. Meanwhile, researchers with Perplexity and Dream Group say they've discovered successful exploitations, including a compromised of 25 servers.
By: Jeff Burt
Intel's struggles for much of the past decade have been well documented here and in other news sites, industry analyst reports, and financial research papers. The once-dominant chip maker has been tripped up by any number of challenges, from the
