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LinkedIn is secretly scanning your browser for 6,000 extensions, and you weren’t told

LinkedIn runs a hidden JavaScript script called Spectroscopy that silently probes over 6,000 Chrome extensions and collects ...

Hackers compromise Axios npm package to drop cross-platform malware

Hackers hijacked the npm account of the Axios package, a JavaScript HTTP client with 100M+ weekly downloads, to deliver ...

How I vibe-coded a web tool in three days with no programming experience

AI chatbots make it possible for people who can’t code to build apps, sites and tools. But it’s decidedly problematic.
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This Week In Security: The Supply Chain Has Problems

The biggest story of the week is a new massive supply chain breach, which appears to be unrelated to the previous massive supply chain breaches, this time of the Axios HTTP project. Axios was ...

LinkedIn secretly scans for 6,000+ Chrome extensions, collects data

A new report dubbed "BrowserGate" warns that Microsoft's LinkedIn is using hidden JavaScript scripts on its website to scan ...

IP at the core - Setting the standards for live IP production

How the industry is working towards an interoperable future for IP within broadcasting facilities. 2018 was an important year for the broadcast production industry, with standards-based IP products ...