Jeffrey Burt

Jeffrey Burt has been a journalist for more than three decades, writing about technology since 2000. He’s written for a variety of outlets, including eWEEK, The Next Platform, The Register, The New Stack, eSecurity Planet, and Channel Insider.

Google is adding greater encryption capabilities to Chrome to better protect users from information-stealing malware, a move that comes after the company's controversial decision to once again delay getting rid of third-party cookies ... Read More

A DDoS attack cause outages of such Microsoft services as Azure, Microsoft 365, and Outlook, but an implementation error in the company's defenses made the situation worse, the IT giant said ... Read More

Tenable reportedly is exploring a potential sale that would add to the growing consolidation in a cybersecurity market that is seeing new innovations in cyber-defenses as the threat of cyberattacks grows ... Read More

A hacker exploited a misconfiguration in Proofpoint's email protection platform to send millions of spoofed phishing emails from companies like IBM, Nike, and Disney looking to steal money and credit card information from victims ... Read More

Some 4.3 million people had their personal and health care information compromised by hackers who were were able to access the data by breaching the account of a business partner of HealthEquity ... Read More

North Korea's APT45 threat group is using ransomware attacks on U.S. health care firms to fund an ongoing cyberespionage campaign to steal military and defense secrets that are fed back into the country's banned nuclear weapons program. A North Korean operative was indicted by the DOJ ... Read More

Microsoft and Google were joined by LinkedIn, GitHub, and Trend Micro in a supporting an appeal of a lawsuit against spyware maker NSO Group that was tossed by a U.S. judge who said that, as a Salvadoran citizen, the plaintiff's case had no standing in a U.S. court ... Read More

Cybersecurity company KnowBe4 unknowingly hired a North Korean operative who used a stolen identity and an AI-enhanced photo to get the software engineer job and then immediately began loading malware into the company's systems ... Read More

Cloud security startup Wiz reportedly is rejecting Google's $23 billion acquisition bid, with the CEO saying the Israeli company will now focus on going public and reach the point of having $1 billion in recurring revenue ... Read More

A cybercrime group called Vigorish Viper runs a complex suite of technologies that support the sprawling operations of a Chinese crime syndicate that has its reach into illegal online sports gambling and Europe's most popular soccer teams ... Read More