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According to the authors of the book Learn ethical hacking, Microsoft paid more than $2M USD to security experts who participated in its vulnerability bounty program during 2018. Experts from the International Institute of Cyber Security (IICS) report that the software company’s plans focus on extending this rewards program by implementing a series of improvements […]
T-Series – PewDiePie Battle Takes an Ugly Turn- PewDiePie Fans Launching PewDiePie ransomware to Get Followers. The battle between T-Series and PewDiePie for the top slot on YouTube is getting more fierce and dramatic day by day. Where T-Series fans are supporting the Indian music company, PewDiePie fans have resorted to extreme measures in making […]
Developers of Kodi add-ons usually host their tools on GitHub. While the popular code repository platform is perfect for development, it has one loophole which has been exploited for quite some time. When users sign up on GitHub, they’re allocated a unique URL. However, when developers delete their account, their namespace can be used by anyone leading to the generation of the same URL which […]
The cybersecurity researchers at Trend Micro have discovered A new malware strain tapped into GitHub posts and Slack channels. Dubbed Slub by researchers; the malware works by exploiting a VBScript engine vulnerability that is classified as CVE-2018-8174 (patched by Microsoft last year). By doing so, the malware can compromise authentic, genuine websites and redirect the visitors to a fake page. When […]
Microsoft has open sourced the code of its Windows Calculator app in order to make more and more components of Windows open source. The company has shared the source code, unit tests, product roadmap and build system on GitHub under the MIT License. Inviting the developers to help the company make the calculator app even […]
GitHub renews its vulnerability report rewards program Network security and ethical hacking specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security report that GitHub, the code hosting platform owned by Microsoft, has made some changes to its vulnerability bounty program. The program, which has been running for five years now, will offer higher rewards and broad […]
On the fifth anniversary of GitHub Security Bug Bounty Program, the code repository platform is expanding its program by increasing its scope and the rewards offered under in it. GitHub has announced that the program will now apply to all first-party services hosted under the github.com domain which includes GitHub Education, GitHub LearningLab, GitHub Desktop, and […]
It’s 2019, Microsoft under the leadership of Satya Nadella is now known to be a company that’s in favor of the open-source ideology, and free sharing of its resources. But its turn out MS wants to go to another level and formally bring the concept of inner-source inside the company (via ZDNet). Now you’re very […]
GitHub Classroom is a teacher-specific tool by the code sharing and collaboration platform, which automates repository creation and access control. It makes it easy for teachers to distribute starter code and collect assignments in one place. Under the hood, GitHub Classroom uses organizations to store course content and student assignments. Adding further to its functionalities, GitHub has […]
Information gathering is a long process in pentesting. There are various tools which gather information from various social media platforms and many other web platforms. But sometimes it is required to gather information from GITHUB, explain ethical hacking professionals. Github as you know a platform for developers where they upload their tools and codes. According […]
Microsoft has announced unlimited private repositories for all free members on GitHub. Previously, GitHub offered free accounts but the code had to be public. Those who wanted a private repository had to pay a sum for it. Now the code repository site has lifted off the limitation by allowing unlimited private projects with up to three collaborators. […]
GitHub annually releases the list of top open source projects that are live on the website. Once again, the code repository is back with the list of projects that received the highest number of unique contributors between October 1, 2017 and September 30, 2018. VS Code, React, and Tensorflow were on the top of GitHub’s list of […]
This year, GitHub has seen increasing enthusiasm among the coders towards “more statically typed languages” that are focused on type safety and interoperability. The top spot was occupied by Kotlin, whereas TypeScript and Rust gained a significant pace this year. Besides these, HCl, a human-readable language for DevOps has seen twice the number of contributors using this […]
GitHub is the most popular code repository used by a huge number for developers and software companies. So whenever GitHub hits a technical snag and the site goes down, lots of users across the world are left exasperated. Even though GitHub already has an old Status Page which indicates the working status of the website, […]
An independent IT security researcher and exploit developer from Russia has publicly revealed a zero-day vulnerability in all versions of VirtualBox (VB) 5.2.20 and prior. VB is commonly used open source virtualization software that has been developed by Oracle. According to the analysis of Sergey Zelenyuk, his exploit is hundred percent reliable and memory corruption […]
The maximum RAM that Windows 95 consumes within Windows 10 is just 200 MB. We have seen hackers doing wonders like hacking PlayStation 4 to run PS2 emulation or homebrew software, hacking Android-compatible Google Daydream VR Controller to run on iOS or run Linux OS on Nintendo Switch. But now, a developer has gone one step ahead […]
The source code of Snapchat, the very popular social media app, was posted online on the Microsoft-owned repository GitHub. A GitHub repository called Source-Snapchat and with a description “Source Code for Snapchat” was created using the alias i5xx, and then the hacker, who claims to be from Pakistan, published what he calls the source code […]
A hacker published the code, allegedly belonging to the Snapchat app for iOS Enterprise network security specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security report that the source code of the popular social network app Snapchat appeared recently online after a hacker leaked it and published it on GitHub, the Microsoft-owned code repository. A GitHub account under […]
Pakistani Hacker Posted Authentic Snapchat Source Code on GitHub – Snapchat’s source code is stolen…can there be a piece of bigger news than that? Perhaps there is! Not only that the source code has been stolen but also posted on Microsoft-owned GitHub of all the platforms. Reportedly, the hacker hails from a small village in Pakistan and […]
Hackers leave no chance of obtaining the source codes of popular apps as they aren’t public. However, in a recent incident, someone has archived Snapchat’s source code and posted it on Github. The incident was confirmed by the social networking app to Motherboard on Tuesday. The hackers got hold of the code after the app […]
When it comes to free resources to learn programming, GitHub’s new Learning Lab is getting popularity among the coding enthusiasts. The code hosting service launched this service earlier this year to help people use GitHub in a better way. The very first offerings of GitHub’s Learning Lab included topics like Introduction to GitHub, GitHub Pages, […]