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It’s that time of year again when GitHub releases its annual Octoverse report and gives us a glimpse of the current state of the developer community and their preferences on the largest repository platform. According to the report, for the first time, Python has outranked Java as the second most popular language on GitHub by […]
It is a common practice among programmers to copy-paste code snippets from the popular Q&A forum Stack Overflow to solve their coding problems. But it turns out that this lazy habit runs a high-security risk. A paper titled “An Empirical Study of C++ Vulnerabilities in Crowd-Sourced Code Examples,” highlights the same. Copied codes can result […]
Use regular expressions to get sensitive information from a given repository (GitHub, pip or npm). Dependencies You only need to have python 3.6 or higher installed to launch this script. In addition you must have installed in the system git, pip and npm. How to use It’s very easy to use, just run the […]
As part of a new discovery, a security researcher found an exploit dubbed Checkm8 (to be pronounced Checkmate), which can allow for permanent jailbreaking of iPhones, starting from the older iPhone 4s to the iPhone X. Checkm8 Jailbreak Exploit The new ‘unpatchable’ flaw has been discovered by a security researcher going by the name ‘Axi0mx’ […]
A severe incident has been confirmed by IT system audit specialists. Scotiabank has mistakenly leaked some of its internal source code as well as confidential login credentials for its back-end systems. The bank’s security teams have spent the last twelve hours deleting repositories on GitHub that stored sensitive information, which were available to any user […]
Stardox is an advanced github stargazers information gathering tool. It scraps Github for information and display them in list tree view. It can be used for collecting information of your’s/someones repository stargazers details. What data it fetchs : Total repsitories Total stars Total Followers Total Following Stargazer’s Email P.S: Many new things will be […]
GitHub has announced a new version of GitHub Actions with the much-requested CI/CD support for third-party continuous integration and continuous deployment tools. With the newly added capabilities, GitHub Actions now makes it easier for developers to automate building, testing, and deploying projects on any platform, including Linux, macOS, and Windows. The Microsoft-owned code repository platform […]
The popular code repository platform GitHub aims to connect millions of developers to develop and share better software. However, the Microsoft-owned platform has now started blocking developers based on the country they operate from. A Russian developer named Anatoliy Kashkin residing in the Crimea region of Ukraine said that his account was unexpectedly “restricted” this […]
GitHub has removed code that is based on DeepNude — an app that uses AI to digitally undress pictures of women and create fake nudes. While the maker of DeepNude has already shut down the project and made it illegal to use or possess copies of the app, multiple repositories based on the DeepNude algorithm […]
IT systems audit experts report an alleged hacking attack against the GitHub account of Canonical Ltd, the company in charge of Ubuntu, the popular Linux distribution, allegedly with the intention of installing a backdoor. “Last July 6, the access credentials to one of the GitHub accounts owned by Canonical were compromised; those responsible for this […]
Canonical, the Ubuntu-maker, has confirmed that their GitHub account was hacked on July 6. The Ubuntu security team issued a statement saying that the credentials of a Canonical owned account on GitHub were compromised. The unknown attackers used the compromised account to “create repositories and issues among other activities.” The company has now removed the […]
An unknown hacker yesterday successfully managed to hack into the official GitHub account of Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu Linux project and created 11 new empty repositories. It appears that the cyberattack was, fortunately, just a “loud” defacement attempt rather than a “silent” sophisticated supply-chain attack that could have been abused to distribute modified […]
GitHub has launched a new program called GitHub Sponsors through which anyone can support the contributors who build the open source software you use every day. Programmers will get a new ‘Sponsor Me‘ button on their GitHub repositories to receive the funding. It is to be noted that the new tool is available only to […]
GitHub undoubtedly has the most popular repositories in the coding world. It isn’t just a code hosting service which offers version control — it also serves a huge network of developers across the world. Currently, GitHub hosts over 30 million accounts, 2+ million organizations, and more than 96 million repositories, among which exist some of […]
Microsoft is reviving PowerToys, a suite of system utilities introduced in Windows 95 that allowed Windows engineers to test prototype features. PowerToys is a package full of amazing tools (programmes) that would let you tweak the UI in Windows, quickly change screen resolutions, or send files and folders to the command line, clipboard, or desktop. It was […]
According to cyber forensics course specialists, GitHub, open source software development platform, has been the target of a campaign of aggressive cyberattacks. During the attacks, the threat actors removed code repositories and demanded the developers a ransom in exchange for restoring the deleted code. The first reports indicate that the attack would have occurred during […]
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 […]
A Chinese software engineer has been jailed for sharing the private keys of repositories, belonging to the drone-maker company DJI, on GitHub. The keys in question were exposed publicly in January 2018. Anyone possessing the key along with the right skills and knowledge can decrypt DJI’s encrypted flight control firmware and bypass geofencing and restrictions […]
Microsoft says its official Microsoft images hosted in Docker Hub have not been compromised. The company behind Docker, a computer program developed to manage operating-system-level virtualization has announced that it has suffered a data breach and as a result, one of Docker Hub databases have been accessed by unknown hackers. The attack was detected on […]
China is notorious for internet censorship, and Chinese developers have found their safe haven in GitHub to protest against the long working hours. The developers protesting against “996” working culture – 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., 6 days a week have created a repository named “996.ICU” that has 230,492 members currently. With GitHub becoming the new […]
China is one of the countries where the internet is heavily censored, thanks to the country’s Great Firewall. Users cannot access social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter. Home-grown services like WeChat are used for messaging apps and social networking, but they are monitored as well. Amidst no means to vent out their anger, Chinese IT workers have resorted to GitHub […]