February 2026

Strategies for Security Leaders in the Midst of Skill Shortages 2026-02-25 at 19:04 By In this episode of Lock It Down with Security Magazine, Chief Security & Trust Officer Kory Daniels shares how security leaders struggling with skill shortages can make strategic tradeoffs to lessen their team’s burden. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe

Microsoft boss on AI content: ‘Nobody wants anything that is sloppy’ 2026-02-25 at 18:39 By Richard Speed Sometimes the ‘S’ word slips through even the best media training Is it OK to say “slop” again? Microsoft boss Satya Nadella took to the stage on the London leg of the company’s AI tour and said the

Ex-L3Harris exec jailed 7 years for selling exploits to Russia 2026-02-25 at 18:26 By Connor Jones Former Trenchant manager profited millions from cyber tools reserved for the US The former general manager of L3Harris’s cyber arm will spend the next seven years behind bars for selling trade secrets to Russia.… This article is an excerpt

Hubble in a death spiral that could end as early as 2028 without a reboost 2026-02-25 at 18:26 By Richard Speed Orbit decay accelerates as solar activity rises, with no approved mission yet to raise the telescope’s altitude A newly released plot of the Hubble Space Telescope’s altitude shows just how quickly the observatory has

SLH Offers $500–$1,000 Per Call to Recruit Women for IT Help Desk Vishing Attacks 2026-02-25 at 18:25 By The notorious cybercrime collective known as Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters (SLH) has been observed offering financial incentives to recruit women to pull off social engineering attacks. The idea is to hire them for voice phishing campaigns targeting IT

Top 5 Ways Broken Triage Increases Business Risk Instead of Reducing It 2026-02-25 at 18:25 By Triage is supposed to make things simpler. In a lot of teams, it does the opposite. When you can’t reach a confident verdict early, alerts turn into repeat checks, back-and-forth, and “just escalate it” calls. That cost doesn’t stay

Malicious NuGet Packages Stole ASP.NET Data; npm Package Dropped Malware 2026-02-25 at 18:25 By Cybersecurity researchers have discovered four malicious NuGet packages that are designed to target ASP.NET web application developers to steal sensitive data. The campaign, discovered by Socket, exfiltrates ASP.NET Identity data, including user accounts, role assignments, and permission mappings, as well as

Cloudflare experiment ports most of Next.js API ‘in one week’ with AI 2026-02-25 at 18:14 By Tim Anderson Uses Vite and Claude to sidestep Vercel lock-in with a new open source build tool A Cloudflare engineer says he has implemented 94 percent of the Next.js API by directing Anthropic’s Claude, spending about $1,100 on tokens.…