GitHub has revolutionized the way developers collaborate, offering a space where anyone can share and contribute to open-source projects. However, this openness has also made it an attractive hunting ...

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Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant is exposing the contents of more than 20,000 private GitHub repositories from companies including Google, Intel, Huawei, PayPal, IBM, Tencent and, ironically, ...

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The vulnerability was spotted in August 2025, so users should patch now.

We’ve written a fair amount about GitHub here at ProfHacker. To cite just a few examples, Lincoln described how to fork syllabi using GitHub, George outlined how to preserve your Twitter archive using ...

Researchers at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science found thousands of repositories on GitHub that offer fake proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits for various vulnerabilities, some of them ...

A misconfigured AWS CodeBuild webhook allowed bypass of actor ID checks, risking takeover of four AWS GitHub repositories ...

And it's 'not unique to AWS,' researcher tells The Reg A critical misconfiguration in AWS's CodeBuild service allowed ...

This announcement comes courtesy of TheNextWeb.com, which admits it broke Microsoft's embargo on the news a day early. Microsoft will formally announce this change in strategy on January 8, according ...