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The maintainers of the Git source code version control system have released updates to remediate two critical vulnerabilities that could be exploited by a malicious actor to achieve remote code execution. The flaws, tracked as CVE-2022-23521 and CVE-2022-41903, impacts the following versions of Git: v2.30.6, v2.31.5, v2.32.4, v2.33.5, v2.34.5, v2.35.5, v2.36.3, v2.37.4, v2.38.2, and v2.39.0. […]
One can imagine that contributions to open source projects would be evaluated on the quality of code above anything else. However, researchers have found quite the opposite! In a paper titled, “Does Code Quality Affect Pull Request Acceptance?, submitted to “Information and Software Technology” journal; researchers tried to determine whether code quality issues such as […]
BitBucket has officially announced that it is going to end Mercurial support from Bitbucket Cloud and its API. All Mercurial features and repositories will be removed from the platform on June 1, 2020. When BitBucket was launched in 2008, it initially supported Mercurial repositories only. But that changed slowly and by 2012, the software-hosting service started […]
Git hosting services like GitHub, Bitbucket, and GitLab are under ransom attack where hundreds of Git source code repositories have been wiped out and replaced with a ransom demand by attackers. The mysterious hackers have launched a coordinated attack across multiple Git repository platforms. It is unclear how this level of attack took place, but a ransom […]
This is a simple tool to gather information, based on Operative-Framework. Requirements requests pythonwhois beautifulsoup4 Install requirements $ pip install -r requirements.txt How to use $ git clone https://github.com/qqwaszx/blackowl.git $ python main.py : blackowl > help Modules /core/modules/ CMS Gathering : CMS Detection Email to Domain : Get domain with email Hackedmail : Check […]
Short Bytes: Microsoft has almost moved all of its Windows developers to Git version control system, which was developed by Linux creator Linus Torvalds. This has also resulted in the largest Git repo on the planet. This repo is about 300GB in size and contains 3.5 million lines of code. Earlier this year in February, […]
Short Bytes: To manage its code more efficiently, Microsoft has created open source Git Virtual File System (GVFS). It’s designed to deal with large Git repos more efficiently by virtualizing the file system in the repo and reducing the time taken to perform critical operations. Now, Microsoft has open sourced the client side source code of GVFS. […]
Short Bytes: Git Stats is a command line tool, which lets a developer see the contribution percentages of project contributors, see global or user commit activity, filtered by date and other options. To use this tool, you need nodejs and npm installed on your system. You can visit git-stats GitHub repository to see all the options. Github user IonicaBizau, made this awesome tool called git-stats. […]
Short Bytes: SourceClear’s Open is a new tool to find potential threats in the open source code. This tool works for different platforms and frameworks like Django, Git, Bundler etc. Scanning report comes in the form of an analytics, using which a developer can also troubleshoot the buggy problems in the code. In the wake […]
Short Bytes: With gitnonymous project, now you can obfuscate your true identity while making Git commits and pushing to public repositories. Using the instructions given on the GitHub page, learn to setup your anonymous account. Chris McCormick (aka chr15m) released an open source project called gitnonymous which can help you contribute to any public repository by […]
Short Bytes: Are you new to the world of Git and GitHub, finding it a little bit scary? Well, to erase these fears of command-line users who are new to this workflow tool, GitHub has released a self-paced training course which is available at no cost for a limited time. GitHub is the first choice […]
Recently, I read about an innocent mistake committed often by web developers and thought it’d be nice to share it on fossBytes. Developers risk the security of their entire website by exposing their .git folder. This is a recipe for disaster as it keeps all the information at one place. If someone has an access […]