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.
North Korea’s notorious Lazarus Group is using an advanced malicious implant to target cryptocurrency wallets and spreading it via legitimate GitHub profile and possibly through npm packages. The ongoing campaign, dubbed Operation Marstech ...
A backdoor that impersonates a widely used database module in the popular Go programming language can give hackers control of infected systems, according to a senior threat intelligence analyst with developer-focused platform ...
The country’s top cybersecurity agency is urging developers to take steps to ensure the software they’re building and the products they roll out are secure and protect end users. The Cybersecurity and ...
Hardening the security around open source software has been a key part of the White House’s larger cybersecurity efforts since President Biden released his executive order for improving the United States’ security ...
DARPA will lean on emerging AI capabilities to deal with the costly and time-consuming challenge of rewriting C and C++ code to Rust in a move designed to meet the push for ...
More than 97% of the Windows desktops that were suddenly disrupted a week ago by a problematic software update from CrowdStrike are back online, according to the cybersecurity company’s top executive, but ...
GitHub and similar open-source code and project repositories have become a common target of cybercriminals looking to lure developers into unknowingly downloading malicious scripts ...