2026 marks Jeff Burt's 40th year in journalism, including more than two decades reporting on the technology industry. He spent 16-plus years at eWEEK (2000–2017), where he covered data center infrastructure, networking, collaboration technology, cloud computing, processors, PCs, and — later — AI, quantum computing, and cybersecurity, eventually serving as Senior Editor and helping oversee the eWEEK Labs analyst group. Since 2017 he has worked as a freelance technology journalist and as Senior Editor at The Next Platform, covering HPC, supercomputing, hyperscale and enterprise computing, processors, and systems software. His byline has also appeared at The Register, The New Stack, eSecurity Planet, Enterprise Storage Forum, Enterprise Networking Planet, Channel Insider, Channel Futures, ITPro Today, and MSSP Alert, spanning enterprise infrastructure, cybersecurity, and emerging compute technologies. Before moving into technology reporting, Jeff spent 14 years covering courts, crime, politics, and environmental issues for general-circulation newspapers in Massachusetts. He holds a B.A. in Public Affairs/Journalism from Keene State College. Jeff is a contributing author at Security Boulevard, DevOps.com, and Techstrong.ai, where he covers cybersecurity threats including ransomware and nation-state hacking groups, data breaches, DOJ/law enforcement actions, and software supply chain attacks.
Threat actors continue to find new ways to incorporate AI into schemes aimed at luring developers into downloading malware from fake repositories. The latest example involves almost 7,600 malicious GitHub repositories that ...
AI coding assistants have become an essential part of developers’ work, automating many of the repetitive tasks – think boilerplate coding and scaffolding – that in the past ate up a lot ...
Hallucinations have been an ongoing problem since OpenAI first introduced its ChatGPT chatbot in November 2022, highlighting generative AI’s tendency to generate plausible but false or misleading information and its inability to ...
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 ...
The North Korean-sponsored threat groups behind the long-running fake interview scams targeting developers are expanding the PolinRider supply chain campaign that has escalated over the past several months. Reports from cybersecurity vendors ...
A newly discovered supply chain security flaw is once again putting a spotlight on inherent weaknesses in CI/CD pipelines and the growing interest among cyberthreat actors to exploit them. Security researchers with ...
A clean GitHub repository that contains no malicious code can launch an attack and fully compromise a developer’s systems by using indirect prompt injections to trick AI-powered coding agents like Anthropic’s Claude ...
Threat actors are exploiting a known security flaw in the SimpleHelp remote monitoring and management (RMM) software to drop two previously unknown pieces of malware that can compromise a broad range of ...
