Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Vibe coding isn’t what a lot of people seem to think it is.

Just like you probably don't grow and grind wheat to make flour for your bread, most software developers don't write every line of code in a new project from scratch. Doing so would be extremely slow ...

A Chinese-linked cyberespionage group has pulled off a classic software supply-chain ambush, compromising a popular open-source coding tool and turning trusted updates into a stealthy delivery system ...

A quiet compromise of a popular open-source coding editor has turned into one of the most unsettling software supply-chain stories of the year. Attackers silently hijacked the infrastructure behind ...