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Tech Tariff Exemptions Are Temporary, Looking at ‘Whole Electronics Supply Chain’
U.S. President Donald Trump. Image: Gage Skidmore/Creative Commons U.S. President Donald Trump and his team have stated that the reciprocal tariff exemptions on electronic products are temporary. The administration excluded smartphones, computers, semiconductors, and other tech items from the 125% tariff on Chinese imports on April 11. Trump said his team is taking a look at the “whole electronics supply…
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AI-hallucinated code dependencies become new supply chain risk
A new class of supply chain attacks named ‘slopsquatting’ has emerged from the increased use of generative AI tools for coding and the model’s tendency to “hallucinate” non-existent package names. The term slopsquatting was coined by security researcher Seth Larson as a spin on typosquatting, an attack method that tricks developers into installing malicious packages by using names that closely…
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China’s rare earth export controls threaten enterprise IT hardware supply chains
China has announced immediate export controls on seven more rare earth elements critical to enterprise IT hardware manufacturing, firing a fresh salvo in the ongoing tech trade war. This move could significantly impact tech giants including Dell Technologies, HP, Apple, and IBM, along with semiconductor leaders such as Intel, Samsung, and TSMC. The new controls issued by China’s State Council require export…
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GitHub Action hack likely led to another in cascading supply chain attack
A cascading supply chain attack that began with the compromise of the “reviewdog/action-setup@v1” GitHub Action is believed to have led to the recent breach of “tj-actions/changed-files” that leaked CI/CD secrets. Last week, a supply chain attack on the tj-actions/changed-files GitHub Action caused malicious code to write CI/CD secrets to the workflow logs for 23,000 repositories. If those logs had been…
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Supply chain attack on popular GitHub Action exposes CI/CD secrets
A supply chain attack on the widely used ‘tj-actions/changed-files’ GitHub Action, used by 23,000 repositories, potentially allowed threat actors to steal CI/CD secrets from GitHub Actions build logs. The GitHub Action is a very popular automation tool designed for GitHub Actions workflows. It allows developers to identify files changed in a pull request or commit and take actions based on…
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Organizations urged to act fast after GitHub Action supply chain attack
More than 20,000 organizations may be at risk following a supply chain attack affecting tj-actions/changed-files GitHub Action. GitHub Actions is a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) service that enables developers to automate software builds and tests. Workflows are triggered by specific events, for example when new code is committed to the repository. Used in more than 23,000 repositories, tj-actions/changed-files…
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Cybersecurity skills demand still isn’t matching supply – what can leaders do in 2025 to redress the balance?
The tech sector continues to struggle with meeting demand for cybersecurity skills, an issue that appears to be getting worse over time. According to ISC2’s latest Cybersecurity Workforce Study, cyber workforce growth has slowed while the cybersecurity skills gap has grown to a record high of 4.8 million – up 19% compared to a year earlier. A total of 10.2…
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Safety of Food Supply Threatened by FDA Spending Freeze
Food safety experts in and outside the agency agree that the food program’s budget was already inadequate to carry out the amount of oversight required even before the new administration took over this year. Indeed, some of the budget cuts to outbreak rapid response teams now going into effect were first proposed under the previous administration’s FDA, says Steven Mandernach,…
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Silk Typhoon hackers now target IT supply chains to breach networks
Microsoft warns that Chinese cyber-espionage threat group ‘Silk Typhoon’ has shifted its tactics, now targeting remote management tools and cloud services in supply chain attacks that give them access to downstream customers. The tech giant has confirmed breaches across multiple industries, including government, IT services, healthcare, defense, education, NGOs, and energy. “They [Silk Typhoon] exploit unpatched applications that allow them…
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Why supply chain oversight is critical for business
All businesses, from the smallest ventures to the largest enterprises, have supply chains and a need for supply chain oversight. Whether it’s the raw materials made into the product you sell, or the office equipment and software you procure for your service-based business, you’ll always have dependencies and a need to maintain oversight over your personal supply chain. In any…
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