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 Cloud says it is taking a phased approach to making MFA mandatory for all users by the end of 2025 to help bolster the cyber-protections against increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks ... Read More

Interpol, other law enforcement agencies, and cybersecurity firms teamed up for Operation Synergia II, shutting down 22,000 malicious servers that supported ransomware, phishing, and other attacks and arresting 41 people connected to the cybercrime campaigns ... Read More

A Canadian resident, Alexander “Connor” Moucka, was arrested by Canadian law enforcement at the request of the United States for allegedly stealing sensitive data of myriad corporations like AT&T and Santander Bank that were stored in Snowflake's cloud systems and exposed during a breach ... Read More

Google researchers behind the vendor's Big Sleep project used the LLM-based AI agent to detect a security flaw in SQLite, illustrating the value the emerging technology can have in discovering vulnerabilities that techniques like fuzzing can't ... Read More

The FIDO Alliance found in a survey that as consumers become more familiar with passkeys, they are adopting the technology as a more secure alternative to passwords to authenticate their identities online ... Read More

GreyNoise Intelligence researchers said proprietary internal AI-based tools allowed them to detect and identify two vulnerabilities in IoT live-stream cameras that traditional cybersecurity technologies would not have been able to discover ... Read More

Microsoft is again delaying the release of its controversial Recall feature for new Windows Copilot+ PCs until December to get new security capabilities in place and hopefully avoid the industry backlash it faced when first introducing the tool in May ... Read More

UnitedHealth Group, which is still picking up the pieces after a massive ransomware attack that affected more than 100 million people, hired a new and experienced CISO to replace the previous executive who became a target of lawmakers for having no cybersecurity background ... Read More

A report by the Identity Theft Resource Center found that while the number of small businesses hit by a cyberattack and the amount of losses continues to grow, companies are adopting stronger security best practices and investing more in security and compliance tools ... Read More

The Cloud Security Alliance, noting the increasing cyberthreats to critical infrastructure in a highly interconnected world, released a report outlining steps organizations can take to implement zero trust policies to protect against nation-state actors and other threat groups ... Read More