Copilot vibe coding for OS development? Why not Canny Windows users who’ve spotted a mysterious folder on hard drives after applying last week’s security patches for the operating system can rest assured – it’s perfectly benign. In fact, it’s recommended you leave the directory there.… READ MORE HERE…

UK holds onto oversight by a whisker, but it’s utterly barefaced on the other side of the pond Opinion  The UK government’s attempts to worm into Apple’s core end-to-end encryption were set back last week when the country’s Home Office failed in its bid to keep them secret on national security grounds.… READ MORE HERE…

PLUS: Chinese robodogs include backdoor; OpenAI helps spammer; A Dutch data disaster; And more! Infosec In Brief  Fortinet last week admitted that attackers have found new ways to exploit three flaws it thought it had fixed last year.… READ MORE HERE…

Hallucinated package names fuel ‘slopsquatting’ The rise of LLM-powered code generation tools is reshaping how developers write software – and introducing new risks to the software supply chain in the process.… READ MORE HERE…

Hallucinated package names fuel ‘slopsquatting’ The rise of AI-powered code generation tools is reshaping how developers write software – and introducing new risks to the software supply chain in the process.… READ MORE HERE…