News
What IT leaders are reading, from the sources they trust, plus articles written for this site. Stories from other sites open in a new tab.
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Tech pros uneasy about current state of labor market (opens CIO Dive in a new tab)
Despite a year-over-year jump in demand, just 1 in 7 IT professionals feel good about the state of hiring amid unrealistic role expectations.
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Trump gives Musk, Huang, Su and Brin the National Medal of Science (opens The Next Web in a new tab)
Six technology leaders received the country’s highest honours for science and technology from President Donald Trump on Thursday, the White House said. Elon Musk, Sergey Brin, Jensen Huang and Lisa Su got the National Medal of Science. Michael Dell and Satya Nadella got the National Medal of...
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Book Publishers Are Quietly Using More AI. Staff Are Revolting (opens Wired in a new tab)
Workers at three major publishing houses tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech.
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AI Scramble Drives Cybersecurity M&A Boom (opens Dark Reading in a new tab)
Welcome to another gangbuster year for strategic M&A activity in cyber, with 117 deals announced in the latest quarter. What's different: Many of the buyers are not your typical cybersecurity firms.
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Governed context: The key to scaling enterprise AI (opens CIO in a new tab)
The AI revolution is experiencing some growing pains. Across industries, business leaders are confronting the same challenge: AI pilots dazzle, but they don’t scale. An agent that reasons brilliantly in the sandbox turns unreliable the moment it touches a real, regulated business process. As a...
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Credential-Stealing GitHub Actions Workflows Planted in Tens of Thousands of Repositories (opens The Hacker News in a new tab)
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an ongoing credential-theft campaign that has compromised two high-profile open-source maintainer accounts to push a malicious workflow into over 340 repositories. "Using the account of Takashi Kitao, author of the 18,400-star game engine pyxel...
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PC shipments dropped sharply in Q3 as rising costs hurt demand (opens CIO Dive in a new tab)
Higher costs are forcing IT leaders to hold back on purchases while supply chain shortages are pushing vendors to continue raising prices, according to Omdia.
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NASA Just Made Nearly 1 TB of Artemis II Data Available to the Public (opens Wired in a new tab)
The data drop includes photographs, audio, video, and astronauts’ notes that will be used to study the moon and prepare for future human missions.
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FBI Arrests Another ShinyHunters Suspect Reportedly Involved in Its Jobs Portal Hack (opens The Hacker News in a new tab)
The FBI has arrested another suspected co-conspirator of ShinyHunters, FBI Director Kash Patel said on October 9 in a post on X. ShinyHunters is the extortion group that said in September it had breached the FBI's jobs portal and stolen sensitive data on almost all FBI agents and job applicants...
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What We Missed: FBI Strikes Back at ShinyHunters (opens Dark Reading in a new tab)
In this video conversation, Dark Reading editors discuss some of the news they didn't get a chance to cover, from the arrest of a suspected ShinyHunters operative to the compromise of a Pentagon-run data center.
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P7 DarkSword iOS Exploit Kit Adds Crypto Wallet Data Theft and Remote Commands (opens The Hacker News in a new tab)
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a previously unseen variant of the DarkSword iOS exploit kit called P7 DarkSword. "Compared with the variants we usually observe, P7 reduces its on-device footprint, adds on-device keychain and crypto-wallet theft, and adds two way C2...
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Security Threats Don't Stop at the Office: Why Executives' Families Need Training, Too (opens Dark Reading in a new tab)
Those closest to executives must match their security postures because the weakest link in a family can become the entry point for attacks.
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Lightwell project filters out 400 Java library vulnerabilities (opens CSO Online in a new tab)
Lightwell, the open-source security initiative set up by IBM and Red Hat, has identified more than 400 previously undiscovered vulnerabilities in widely used Java libraries — and now the companies are inviting customers to submit their own code dependencies to a new service, Lightwell...
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The DOJ Is Weighing Perjury Charges Against Cassidy Hutchinson (opens Wired in a new tab)
The Justice Department is considering a perjury and obstruction-of-justice case against Cassidy Hutchinson, a former White House aide who testified against Donald Trump to the January 6 committee.
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Ransomware consultant said he would decrypt data, is accused of paying ransoms instead (opens CSO Online in a new tab)
The owner of a ransomware remediation company is facing trial for defrauding customers. Zohar Pinhasi, also known as “Zack Silver” and “Zack Green,” has been arraigned in New York on wire fraud charges for allegedly defrauding clients of his ransomware remediation company, MonsterCloud. Pinhasi...
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OpenAI reports three new incidents of misalignment (opens CSO Online in a new tab)
OpenAI continues to report incidences of “misaligned” behavior by its AI models, with three new reports dropping on Oct. 2. However, they describe relatively minor issues compared to previous alignment reports and notices covering its attacks on Hugging Face, Rubygems, and a German programming...
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Why CIOs should choose Samsung Galaxy Enterprise Edition (opens CIO in a new tab)
CIOs, it’s time to rethink your mobile device lifecycle Let’s start with an uncomfortable question: how much risk is hiding in devices that are no longer receiving security updates? Enterprise mobility management (EMM) and mobile device management (MDM) solutions can give IT visibility across a...
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Why CIOs should choose Samsung Galaxy Enterprise Edition (opens CIO in a new tab)
CIOs, it’s time to rethink your mobile device lifecycle Let’s start with an uncomfortable question: how much risk is hiding in devices that are no longer receiving security updates? Enterprise mobility management (EMM) and mobile device management (MDM) solutions can give IT visibility across a...
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Why CIOs should choose Samsung Galaxy Enterprise Edition (opens CIO in a new tab)
CIOs, it’s time to rethink your mobile device lifecycle Let’s start with an uncomfortable question: how much risk is hiding in devices that are no longer receiving security updates? Enterprise mobility management (EMM) and mobile device management (MDM) solutions can give IT visibility across a...
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Why CIOs should choose Samsung Galaxy Enterprise Edition (opens CIO in a new tab)
CIOs, it’s time to rethink your mobile device lifecycle Let’s start with an uncomfortable question: how much risk is hiding in devices that are no longer receiving security updates? Enterprise mobility management (EMM) and mobile device management (MDM) solutions can give IT visibility across a...
