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The NHS is facing significant pushback after management instructed its tech leadership to lock down the organization's open source code repositories. The concern driving the decision is that modern AI-powered bug-hunting tools could scan public code and surface vulnerabilities before they're patched — a reasonable fear, critics acknowledge, but one that trades long-term transparency for short-term security theater.
Meanwhile, North Korea's Lazarus Group has found a clever new hiding spot for malware — inside Git hooks, the small scripts that run automatically when developers perform routine version control actions. It's a reminder that supply chain attacks are growing more subtle, targeting the tools developers trust most, and that even the most mundane parts of a workflow can become an attack surface.
On a different note, IT service management platforms are quietly accumulating a kind of invisible debt. A new analysis warns that without strong governance and disciplined development practices, modern ITSM systems become tangled webs of workarounds and custom configurations that eventually cost more to maintain than they ever saved to build.
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