Catalin Cimpanu

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Catalin Cimpanu is a security reporter at ZDNet, where he covers cyber-security, data breaches, hacking, and other related topics. He previously served as security reporter for Bleeping Computer and Softpedia. Catalin is based in Romania.

Catalin does not own any stock or cryptocurrency, does not have affiliations with cyber-security firms, and has never published paid-for or sponsored articles.

Latest from Catalin Cimpanu

A Rust-based TLS library outperformed OpenSSL in almost every category

Benchmarks reveal better connection speeds and smaller memory footprint for Rustls library, compared to OpenSSL.

July 19, 2019 by Catalin Cimpanu in Developer

Browser vendors win war with W3C over HTML and DOM standards

W3C hands over development of HTML and DOM standards to browser vendors (WHATWG).

May 28, 2019 by Catalin Cimpanu in Developer

GitHub launches Package Registry to easily generate packages from your code

GitHub Package Registry currently supports Docker images and npm, NuGet, Maven, and RubyGem packages.

May 10, 2019 by Catalin Cimpanu in Developer

Google's Web Packaging standard arises as a new tool for privacy enthusiasts

Web Packaging will let site owners create signed versions of their pages to distribute via alternative channels.

May 8, 2019 by Catalin Cimpanu in Developer

CSS to get support for trigonometry functions

CSS trigonometry functions approved but not expected to hit browsers any time soon.

March 10, 2019 by Catalin Cimpanu in Developer

Google backtracks on Chrome modifications that would have crippled ad blockers

Google changes stance on upcoming Chrome Manifest V3 changes as benchmark shows they lied about performance hit.

February 16, 2019 by Catalin Cimpanu in Developer

Safari engineers look at different approach to fighting intrusive ads

Safari engineers want to limit the amount of JavaScript that a website can load.

February 2, 2019 by Catalin Cimpanu in Developer