Corporate IT professionals typically use a checklist to rate vendors’ potential for meeting their most critical needs. “Vendor viability” is the term often placed on these checklists to grade the potential that the application or service the company is considering will be around for the long term. It’s also a term consumers might want to add to their vocabulary in the cloud-based age.
Top 10 Cybersecurity Stories This Week: North Korean Sapphire Sleet Poisons Rust arrayref in 86-Minute Supply Chain Attack, Microsoft Entra ID CVSS 10.0 RCE Tagged “Exploited” Then Corrected, T-Mobile Cut a Cable to Stop Salt Typhoon
August 28, 2026 | ITBriefcase.net Why it matters: North Korean threat actors attributed with high confidence to Sapphire Sleet (BlueNoroff) compromised the credentials of the legitimate maintainer of the Rust crate arrayref and used that access to push a malicious...








