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Lapsus$ cybercriminals claim major cyberattack on Samsung

Lapsus$ cybercriminals claim major cyberattack on Samsung

Hacker group Lapsus$ claims to have stolen 190GB of confidential data from Samsung. This mainly involves source code for Samsung devices. Last week, Lapsus$ claimed to have stolen 1TB of confidential data from Nvidia. In an attempt to back the claim, the criminal group published 20GB of the alle... Read more

date2 years ago
AWS CodeGuru now discovers ‘secret information’ in code

AWS CodeGuru now discovers ‘secret information’ in code

AWS CodeGuru receives new functionality to improve code security. Among other things, the tool now leverages a Secrets Detector functionality to discover 'secret information' in source code. Developers use AWS CodeGuru to detect defects and bugs in source code through machine learning and recomm... Read more

date2 years ago
‘Trojan Source’ can inject malware into source code undetected

‘Trojan Source’ can inject malware into source code undetected

A new research paper has been published with details about a new technique that can be exploited to inject malware into source code without being detected. Named ‘Trojan Source' by Cambridge University researchers, the method involves the manipulation of source file encoding so that human viewers... Read more

date2 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
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
Intel develops AI that can identify the purpose of a line of code

Intel develops AI that can identify the purpose of a line of code

Intel, together with researchers from MIT and the Georgia Institute of Technology, created an AI engine that can determine the purpose of a line of code. This is an important step in the development of an AI tool capable of developing applications on its own. Last year, Intel assembled a researc... Read more

date4 years ago
OutSystems and Boncode code analysis service reduces errors

OutSystems and Boncode code analysis service reduces errors

OutSystems starts a collaboration with Boncode, a Dutch supplier of software analysis services. Together, they provide OutSystems customers with a resource to ensure that the developed applications are optimally implemented for maintenance, reliability, performance and security. The new service comp... Read more

date5 years ago
Microsoft makes open-source version MS-DOS available on GitHub

Microsoft makes open-source version MS-DOS available on GitHub

Microsoft makes MS-DOS once again open-source. This time the tech giant published the code on GitHub. These are MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0. This follows an earlier decision by Microsoft to make MS-DOS open-source via the Computer History Museum - a choice it made in 2014. The choice to publish GitHub on MS... Read more

date5 years ago
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