Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

FBI, CISA harrumph at Microsoft and VMware in call for coders to quit baking avoidable defects into stuff US authorities have labelled buffer overflow vulnerabilities "unforgivable defects”, pointed to the presence of the holes in products from the likes of Microsoft and VMware, and urged all software developers to adopt secure-by-design practices to avoid creating more of them.…

Yet more support for the argument to adopt memory-safe languages More than 11,500 Juniper Networks devices are exposed to a new remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability, and infosec researchers are pressing admins to urgently apply the patches.…

PLUS: Montana TikTok ban ruled unconstitutional; Dollar Tree employee data stolen; critical vulnerabilities Infosec in brief The European Union’s Parliament and Council have reached an agreement on the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), setting the long-awaited security regulation on a path to final approval and adoption, along with new rules exempting open source software.…