On April 28, 2003, Apple launched the iTunes Store, kicking off its love affair with services revenue and (perhaps incidentally) saving the music industry from digital doom. Nearly a quarter of a century later, Apple…
Portable apps are applications and tools that can be started directly upon clicking them, with no prior installation needed. The advantage of this is that the programs are immediately ready for use and can be…
Ravie LakshmananMay 25, 2026Endpoint Security / Threat Intelligence Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a cross-platform malware called RemotePE that has been put to use by the North Korea-linked Lazarus Group in attacks targeting financial…
TL;DR: Microsoft Office 2024 Home and Business is $129.97 (MSRP $249.99) through May 31 at 11:59 PM. Microsoft 365 Personal runs $99.99 a year. Over five years, that is nearly $500 for software you never actually own. Microsoft…
A new coordinated cross-ecosystem software supply chain attack campaign has targeted npm, PyPI, and Crates.io to distribute credential-stealing malware. The campaign, codenamed TrapDoor, spans more than 34 malicious packages across over 384 versions. The earliest…
TL;DR: Try ChatOn Premium for a year for $29.99 (MSRP $39.99) and get access to multiple leading AI models, image and video tools, web search, and productivity features in one app. There’s a weird phase happening right now…
TL;DR: The Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2026 bundle includes 15 coding courses and is on sale for $49.97 (regularly $1,999.99) through May 31. This is the kind of tech purchase that tends to pay for itself pretty…
Ravie LakshmananMay 23, 2026Software Supply Chain / DevSecOps GitHub has rolled out new controls for npm to improve the security of the software supply chain, giving maintainers the ability to explicitly approve a release prior…
Ravie LakshmananMay 23, 2026Malware / DevSecOps A new “coordinated” supply chain attack campaign has impacted eight packages on Packagist including malicious code designed to run a Linux binary retrieved from a GitHub Releases URL. “Although…
Spyware attacks on journalists, human rights defenders, and political dissidents are no longer rare or exotic. In early 2025, WhatsApp notified roughly 90 users — many of them journalists and civil society members across Europe…