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GitHub: open source security vulnerabilities take years to detect

GitHub: open source security vulnerabilities take years to detect

Research also shows that once detected, bugs are fixed quickly. GitHub this week released its 2020 State of the Octoverse report. In it, they highlighted the increased important of open source tools and their growing role in software development. The organisation spent 2020 following over 56 ... Read more

date3 years ago
GitHub saves ‘Greatest Hits’ in Arctic Code Vault

GitHub saves ‘Greatest Hits’ in Arctic Code Vault

GitHub has announced a new addition to its Archive Program. The organization will save thousands of repositories from its platform on piqlFilm and store them in a permanently frozen mine shaft in Svalbard. The Greatest Hits collection consists of a collection of the 12,000 most popular repositor... Read more

date3 years ago
GitHub CEO denies that their source code was hacked

GitHub CEO denies that their source code was hacked

CEO Nat Friedman calls the repo post a fake and promises to make impersonation more difficult. Recently a site called Resynth (resynth1943.net) posted a link to a Wayback Machine snapshot of a GitHub repo that appeared to come from GitHub CEO Nat Friedman. The poster had labelled the repo as: "T... Read more

date3 years ago
GitHub threatens to ban users uploading YouTube-dl copies

GitHub threatens to ban users uploading YouTube-dl copies

GitHub has issued a warning for users who upload copies of YouTube-dl's source code to the platform. After the platform previously removed the download program because of a DMCA takedown, many angry users uploaded duplicates of the software. The removal of YouTube-dl from GitHub angered many use... Read more

date3 years ago
Google Cloud adds support for Cloud Native Buildpacks

Google Cloud adds support for Cloud Native Buildpacks

Adoption of the open-source technology will speed up the creation of containerized applications. Last week Google announced that it will be adding support for Cloud Native Buildpacks several of its cloud platform services. Buildpacks were first conceived by Salesforce's Heroku subsidiary in 2... Read more

date4 years ago
AWS releases CloudFormation Guard compliance tool

AWS releases CloudFormation Guard compliance tool

AWS had launched its new CloudFormation Guard compliance tool. The new service helps enterprises keep their AWS infrastructure and application resources in compliance. Amazon Web Services has released CloudFormation Guard, an open-source command line interface (CLI) designed to help AWS admins m... Read more

date4 years ago
GitHub unveils new Code Scanning security feature for GitHub Users

GitHub unveils new Code Scanning security feature for GitHub Users

GitHub unveiled its new security features named Code Scanning. It is available for users on paid and free accounts. The new feature was created by GitHub to help coders prevent vulnerabilities from reaching the final users. It can analyze every pull request, commit and merge, identifying the fla... Read more

date4 years ago
GitHub releases an official command-line interface for the platform

GitHub releases an official command-line interface for the platform

GitHub just released their version 1.0 of their CLI, allowing interaction and repository control from the command line. The hosted repository has it’s foundation on Git, which is a command-line tool in itself. In addition to this, a project called hub gives users a CLI for GitHub. Getting conf... Read more

date4 years ago
GitHub released beta integration for Microsoft Teams

GitHub released beta integration for Microsoft Teams

GitHub, which is owned by Microsoft, has announced a public beta of a GitHub integration for Microsoft Teams. The beta means that developers on GitHub now can add the GitHub app to Microsoft Teams, the same way that they have been able to do with Slack. GitHub and Slack came together back in 201... Read more

date4 years ago
China is building a GitHub alternative amid trade war with the US

China is building a GitHub alternative amid trade war with the US

China wants to make a domestic version of GitHub, the open-source software development platform. The Chinese government is turning to an old and almost forgotten platform that was named Gitee. In a recent report from the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information, they said that they want to turn... Read more

date4 years ago
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