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.
AI coding agents are reshaping software development—but they’re also expanding the attack surface. Researchers uncovered a now-patched vulnerability in Anthropic’s Claude Code GitHub Action that could have enabled prompt injection attacks to ...
Open source software developers continue to come under attack, with the latest threat being a custom malware that shares many of the attributes of the notorious Shai-Hulud self-propagating worm but comes with ...
The threat group behind the notorious Mini Shai-Hulud worm last month put the complete source code for the malware into a GitHub repository, essentially open sourcing the threat so that other bad ...
IBM and Red Hat are bringing together what they’ve learned from frontier AI models and 20,000 engineers to launch Project Lightwell, a $5 billion initiative aimed at helping enterprises better secure their ...
A dangerous vulnerability found in Anthropic’s popular Claude Code developer model could have allowed bad actors to grab control of a victim’s system by luring them into clicking on a crafted malicious ...
The latest series of attacks using the notorious Shai-Hulud worm puts into sharp focus the threats facing software developers and their CI/CD pipelines, an issue that has been raised in recent months ...
A critical vulnerability in a popular Microsoft GitHub repository could allow a threat actor to easily exploit its CI/CD infrastructure to run arbitrary code in the repository and gain access to secrets, ...
The npm code repository is again being used by a bad actor to launch a supply chain attack that includes three dozen malicious packages that appear as Strapi CMS plugins but deliver ...
