Bleeping Computer

GitHub repos bombarded by info-stealing commits masked as Dependabot

Hackers are breaching GitHub accounts and inserting malicious code disguised as Dependabot contributions to steal authentication secrets and passwords from developers. The campaign unfolded in July ...
Dark Reading

How Attackers Could Dupe Developers into Downloading Malicious Code From GitHub

The metadata that developers look at when deciding whether to use an open source project on GitHub can be easily forged and gives attackers a way to trick users of the platform into downloading ...
Ars Technica

GitHub’s source code was leaked on GitHub last night… sort of

Last night, developer and privacy activist Resynth1943 announced that GitHub’s source code had been leaked on GitHub itself, in GitHub’s own DMCA repository. It’s going to take some unpacking to talk ...
InfoWorld

AI in CI/CD pipelines can be tricked into behaving badly

Malicious content in issues or pull requests can trick AI agents in CI/CD workflows into running privileged commands in an ...
CoinTelegraph

Less Than 5% of Crypto Code Commits on Github Made By Women: Report

Less than 5% of the code committed to the top 100 cryptocurrency projects on Github were contributed by women, according to a Medium article posted by journalist Corin Faife on June 10. The author ...
TheServerSide

Git commit message conventions and best practices

How to write a git commit message properly is a topic that's been broached many times. Any seasoned developer who's rifled through Git logs in a project they've just been parachuted into knows that ...
Bleeping Computer

Here's how a researcher broke into Microsoft VS Code's GitHub

This month a researcher has disclosed how he broke into the official GitHub repository of Microsoft Visual Studio Code. A vulnerability in VS Code's issue management function and a lack of ...