Tag: Joe Saunders
Industry reckons with fear of Iranian cyberattacks
March 11, 2026Ken Showers
YARMOUTH, Maine — Military action involving Iran in recent days has sparked fears of digital reprisal, as cybersecurity experts across the industry prepare for potential attacks targeting critical systems and private data.
The consequences of such attacks could even spill into the physical world, according to RunSafe Security CEO Joe Saunders.
“With the U.S. and Israeli military bombing of Iran, the cyber domain becomes a channel for asymmetric response,”...
CISA directs agencies to purge end‑of‑support devices
February 12, 2026Ken Showers
WASHINGTON — The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a binding operational directive that requires federal agencies inventory, remove, and replace unsupported edge devices as the U.S. Department of Homeland Security tries to address growing threats targeting public and private infrastructure.
Titled, “Mitigating Risk From End-of-Support Edge Devices,” the directive applies to devices considered “Federal...
Shai-Hulud 2.0 demonstrates the danger of open source, expert says
December 12, 2025Ken Showers
YARMOUTH, Maine — Developers are picking up the pieces after the catastrophic release of the Shai-Hulud 2.0 malware worm in the Node Package Manager (NPM) registry.
The worm infected thousands of repositories, exposing up to 400,000 developer secrets and wiping victims’ home directories. Its primary goal was to steal sensitive credentials, including GitHub Personal Access Tokens (PATs) and API keys for major cloud platforms like AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.
Microsoft,...