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GitHub code scanning now finds more security vulnerabilities: Code hosting platform GitHub today launched new machine learning-based code scanning analysis ...
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Solana bot scam on GitHub steals crypto from users: Cybersecurity firm SlowMist has uncovered a fake GitHub repository masquerading as a Solana trading bot that ...
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Minecraft mod users beware, some fake mods are going around that can steal your Steam details and more
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More than a hundred backdoored malware repos traced to single GitHub user: : Someone went to great lengths to prey on the next generation of cybercrooks
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Hacker targets other hackers and gamers with backdoored GitHub code: A hacker targets other hackers, gamers, and researchers with exploits, bots ...
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Winamp: source code disclosed - | discussions about license: In May, the current owners of Winamp announced that they wanted to open the source code ...
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Thousands of GitHub, AWS, Docker tokens exposed in Travis CI logs: For a second time in less than a year, the Travis CI platform for software development and ...
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GitHub announces enhanced 2FA experience for npm accounts: Today, GitHub has launched a new public beta to notably improve the two-factor authentication (2FA) ...
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Heroku admits to customer database hack after OAuth token theft: Heroku has now revealed that the stolen GitHub integration OAuth tokens from last month further ...
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GitHub to require two factor authentication for code contributors by late 2023: Code locker has figured out it's a giant honeypot for miscreants planning ...
theregister.com/2022/05/05/github_2fa_mandatory_2023/

GitHub: How stolen OAuth tokens helped breach dozens of orgs: GitHub has shared a timeline of this month's security breach when a threat actor gained access ...
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GitHub restores popular Python repo hit by bogus DMCA takedown: Yesterday, following a DMCA complaint, GitHub took down a repository that hosts the official ...
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GitHub can now block commits containing API keys, auth tokens: GitHub announced on Monday that it expanded its code hosting platform's secrets scanning ...
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GitHub explains the cause behind the past week's outages: GitHub says recent service outages were caused by resource contention issues in their primary ...
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Checkmate, developers: IntelliJ IDEA plugin catches copy-pasted Java code: And game over, Stackoverflow
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Top programming languages: Why one language dominates when it comes to new technologies
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Oracle releases Java 16 with 17 new enhancements: The latest update finalises the Pattern Matching for instanceof and Records enhancements.
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Microsoft: This new VS Code update brings bunch of features plus 5,242 fixed issues
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Programming languages: Python rules as Java declines: Python continues to shake Java from its spot as one of the top programming languages.
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Programming language Python in VS Code: New Jupyter extension supports R and Julia
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