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Inside Vercel’s sleep-deprived race to contain React2Shell

Talha Tariq and his colleagues at Vercel, the company that maintains Next.js, endured many sleep-deprived nights and weekends when React2Shell was discovered and disclosed soon after Thanksgiving. The defect, which affects vast stretches of the internet’s underlying infrastructure, posed a significant risk for Next.js, an open-source library that depends on vulnerable React Server Components. He…

House passes bill requiring federal contractors to have vulnerability disclosure policies

A bill that would close a loophole in federal cybersecurity standards by requiring government contractors to abide by vulnerability disclosure policies moved one step closer to law Monday after sailing through the House. The passage of the Federal Contractor Cybersecurity Vulnerability Reduction Act in the House came a month after Reps. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., and…