Software security is improving. It’s just not improving fast enough, according to “Global State of DevSecOps 2023,” a report based on a survey of 1,000 information technology professionals. That’s significant, because software isn’t just eating the world, as Mosaic creator and Netscape cofounder Marc Andreessen famously declared more than a…

Can the U.S. president — can the leader of any single country — control the development and use of artificial intelligence (AI)? Looks like we’ll be finding out. President Joe Biden, in what some have termed a “sprawling” and what the White House has termed a “landmark” executive order (EO)…

You don’t have to guess what would happen if a batch of meat being sold in supermarkets across the country was found to be carrying a potentially lethal bacteria like Salmonella. The national news channels would breathlessly cut into regular programming with a “breaking story” telling us all where it…

Another Cybersecurity Awareness Month (CAM) — the 20th — is about to pass into the rear view. Which is probably as good a time as any to ask: How well is it working? There’s no obvious answer given that, two decades on, the results are mixed. The goal, after all…

What’s in a name? When Shakespeare’s Juliet posed that question, it was just about romance. But in today’s tech world, it also applies to software. …

There’s nothing much worse than being in danger and not knowing it. Which is why so-called “zero-day” vulnerabilities in software tend to create panic once they’re discovered. And which is why research from security firm Mandiant documenting a rise in zero-days is alarming. The reason they’re so dangerous is that…

For some time now, the tech world’s nickname for modern vehicles has been “smartphones on wheels.” But in a recent report, the Mozilla Foundation (MF) has a much more derogatory and alarming label: “Privacy nightmares on wheels.” Not that concerns about vehicles collecting and selling personal data are a new…

Want a good job? Learn to code. And if you want to both keep that job and get promoted, learn to make sure your code is secure — more on that shortly. Yes, there are many other job opportunities out there, but this is a skill that, for the foreseeable…

Are we really ready for “smart cities”? It might seem so based on the ongoing efforts by numerous municipalities to “smartify” themselves with everything from red-light cameras to driverless mass transit to sensor-controlled utilities. But based on the state of existing technology, it might be wise to hit the pause…