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Stephen Pritchard, Features writer

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As a writer and broadcaster, Stephen has contributed to the Financial Times, the BBC, The Independent, The Times, The Guardian, and The Telegraph. He has also written for Information Age, CNBC Magazine, Computer Weekly, and a range of trade and professional titles. Stephen now specializes in writing about security and information technology, as well as producing and presenting videos and podcasts in the field.

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Finding the next Log4j – OpenSSF’s Brian Behlendorf on pivoting to a ‘risk-centred view’ of open source development23 December 2022 at 12:17 UTCMillion-dollar bug bounties: The rise of record-breaking payouts29 November 2022 at 15:50 UTCPolicy-as-code approach counters ‘cloud native’ security risks07 October 2022 at 15:24 UTCSecure Open Source Rewards program launched to help protect critical upstream software18 August 2022 at 12:09 UTCGermany to mandate minimum security standards for web browsers in government15 August 2022 at 14:18 UTCVivaldi browser founder Jon von Tetzchner puts privacy at the center of development13 July 2022 at 12:31 UTCCyber Europe 2022: EU completes large-scale cyber war game exercise01 July 2022 at 13:10 UTCYARAify: Defensive tool scans suspicious files against a large repository of YARA rules29 June 2022 at 11:03 UTCCybercriminals use reverse tunneling and URL shorteners to launch ‘virtually undetectable’ phishing campaigns13 June 2022 at 14:44 UTCNIS2: Experts share their views on the EU’s upcoming cybersecurity directive30 May 2022 at 11:05 UTCEuropean Council extends sanction regime to deter future cyber-attacks24 May 2022 at 12:35 UTCEU targets standardization as key to bloc-wide cyber-resilience10 May 2022 at 10:52 UTCIndia to introduce six-hour data breach notification rule05 May 2022 at 11:55 UTCOT security coalition aims to bolster industrial cybersecurity25 April 2022 at 13:21 UTCDowndetector: How the popular site outage tracker is helping to improve web security17 March 2022 at 15:00 UTCUnpatched plugins threaten millions of WordPress websites16 March 2022 at 16:20 UTCIndia’s Personal Data Privacy Bill: What does it mean for individuals and businesses?23 February 2022 at 13:44 UTCPort of LA’s new Cyber Resilience Center aims to bolster physical and digital supply chain defenses17 February 2022 at 11:56 UTCBug Alert launched to provide early warning system for super-critical vulnerabilities13 January 2022 at 12:03 UTCIndian authorities set to tighten data breach laws in 202229 December 2021 at 11:50 UTCWireless coexistence – New attack technique exploits Bluetooth, WiFi performance features for ‘inter-chip privilege escalation’23 December 2021 at 15:28 UTCHow expired web domains help criminal hackers unlock enterprise defenses16 December 2021 at 12:59 UTC‘Inaction isn’t an option’ – US lawmakers back mandatory standards for transport and logistics cybersecurity29 October 2021 at 10:30 UTCSecurity pre-advisories: A simple way to improve the patch management process21 October 2021 at 12:02 UTCEventBuilder misconfiguration exposes personal details of 100,000 event registrants20 September 2021 at 13:08 UTCUK armed forces confirm cyber as fifth dimension of warfare16 September 2021 at 12:01 UTCAudiomack music streaming platform launches public bug bounty17 August 2021 at 14:16 UTCRealtek SDK vulnerabilities impact dozens of downstream IoT vendors16 August 2021 at 14:24 UTCResearch roadblock: Security pros weigh in on China’s new vulnerability disclosure law26 July 2021 at 12:10 UTCChina puts national security protection at the center of new data privacy law09 July 2021 at 14:01 UTCUS Computer Fraud and Abuse Act: What the ‘landmark’ Van Buren ruling means for security researchers15 June 2021 at 14:42 UTCDeadshot: Open source DevOps tool stops sensitive data from being uploaded to GitHub31 May 2021 at 12:26 UTCPega Infinity hotfix released after researchers flag critical authentication bypass vulnerability10 May 2021 at 15:05 UTCWhat the FLoC? Everything you need to know about Google’s new ad tech that aims to replace third-party cookies07 May 2021 at 15:20 UTCPHP package manager flaw left millions of web apps open to abuse03 May 2021 at 14:02 UTCCockpit CMS flaws exposed web servers to NoSQL injection exploits16 April 2021 at 10:03 UTCExplainer: What does the UK’s Integrated Review mean for cybersecurity?23 March 2021 at 13:38 UTCUK defense and foreign policy review places ‘cyber’ front and center16 March 2021 at 16:55 UTCMore than half of women in infosec are treated unequally to male colleagues due to ‘blatant sexism’ in the workplace – report04 March 2021 at 14:15 UTCThe criminal element: Cybercrime cases in the Netherlands more than doubled in 202024 February 2021 at 14:55 UTC