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.
Developers were the targets of two new malicious Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extensions created by a threat actor that security researchers believe is experimenting with methods for delivering information-stealing malware ...
A malicious Rust package that was found to be downloading payloads aimed at stealing cryptocurrency was removed from the crates.io Rust package registry, along with another package by the same author that ...
Researchers with cybersecurity firm Wiz earlier this year discovered, almost by chance, a significant supply chain risk and massive secrets leak in the Visual Studio Code and OpenVSX marketplaces that they said ...
A threat group is dropping two dozen malicious extensions into the VSCode and Open VSX marketplaces, targeting developers using the VSCode, Cursor, and Windsurf source code editing tools with the goal of ...
AI hallucinations – the occasional tendency of large language models to respond to prompts with incorrect, inaccurate or made-up answers – have been an ongoing concern as the enterprise adoption of generative ...
GitHub is linking developers with security pros to reduce the number of vulnerabilities that may be hiding in code that already is in workflows. The highly popular Microsoft-owned code repository this week ...
Freelance developers around the world are being targeted by North Korean bad actors posing as job recruiters who as part of the fake application process entice them to run software jobs that ...
