Massive scale attack The "Megalodon" campaign compromised over 5,000 GitHub repositories in 6 hours by weaponizing automated GitHub Actions workflows that execute when developers push code or merge ...

Apps from Apple, Google and others can assist in making your online accounts more secure, even as new ways of logging in continue to take off. By J. D. Biersdorfer J.D. Biersdorfer writes about how to ...

UPDATE: May. 6, 2026, 9:40 a.m. EDT This piece was updated to include a statement from Microsoft. Password managers are supposed to make life easier for users by remembering their passwords and ...

Cybersecurity firm Trellix disclosed a data breach after attackers gained access to "a portion" of its source code repository. Trellix is a global cybersecurity company formed from the October 2021 ...

Several times in the last couple of decades, Microsoft has released source code for the original MS-DOS operating system that kicked off its decades-long dominance of consumer PCs. This week, the ...

At the heart of any password generator is a cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator (CSPRNG), an algorithm that produces unpredictable sequences of numbers and characters. This isn’t an ...

When voters in the forthcoming Hungarian election assess the current government, its record on internet security will not be one of its proudest achievements. An analysis by open source investigation ...

A WIRED investigation based on Department of Homeland Security records this week revealed the identities of paramilitary Border Patrol agents who frequently used force against civilians during ...

Every enterprise running AI coding agents has just lost a layer of defense. On March 31, Anthropic accidentally shipped a 59.8 MB source map file inside version 2.1. ...

The leak of the source code behind Claude Code handed developers and security researchers a rare window into the architecture of a high-profile AI product In a significant setback, Anthropic’s ...

Within days of each other, Anthropic first leaked the source code to Claude Code, and then a critical vulnerability was found by Adversa AI. On March 31, 2026, Anthropic mistakenly included a ...