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Security researcher exploits GitHub gotcha, gets admin access to all Istio repositories and more

A security researcher investigated an archive of commits on GitHub, which developers had likely thought they had deleted, […]

Misconfigured GitHub Actions could leave repos and secrets exposed, Sysdig finds

Sysdig researchers have warned that developers and maintainers could be leaving their repos open to hijacking through inadequately […]

Researchers warn of prompt injection vulnerability in GitHub MCP with no obvious fix

A team of researchers at Invariant Labs, based in Zurich, Switzerland, has warned developers of a prompt injection […]

Mozilla quietly makes Microsoft’s GitHub the authoritative home for Firefox code

The non-profit Mozilla Corporation has made Microsoft-owned GitHub the “canonical home” for the source code of the Firefox […]

The risks of GitHub Actions: Researcher describes severe potential of CodeQL vulnerability, now fixed

A researcher has described how a vulnerability in GitHub’s CodeQL, a tool for detecting security issues, had the […]

React team formally deprecates Create React App following ‘perfect storm of incompatibility’

The React team has officially deprecated the Create React App, once recommended as an easy way to get […]

Microsoft Visual Studio and C# DevKit updates bring long-awaited fixes

Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2022 17.13, with long-awaited fixes including the ability to set the default text […]

VS Code update treats Copilot as “out-of-the-box” feature

Microsoft has updated Visual Studio Code (VS Code) to version 1.97, in which the company said that GitHub […]

More React, more app-like: GitHub engineer outlines future UI for its DevOps platform

A GitHub software engineer has described the past, present and future of UI (user interface) at GitHub, including […]

GitHub Git downtime caused by bad configuration update

GitHub, a critical service for millions of organizations, suffered 49 minutes or more of Git downtime on January […]