Morning Overview on MSN

A single 'git push' could hijack millions of GitHub repositories — and nobody knew for weeks

Sometime in early 2026, a flaw hiding inside one of the most routine actions in software development went live on the world’s ...
Morning Overview on MSN

GitHub’s critical flaw let anyone with push access execute code on servers holding millions of private repos

A single git push command. That is all it would have taken for someone with write access to a repository on GitHub Enterprise ...
InfoQ

How GitHub Improved Code Push Processing Reliability

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Dany Lepage discusses the architectural ...
Bleeping Computer

Here's how a researcher broke into Microsoft VS Code's GitHub

This month a researcher has disclosed how he broke into the official GitHub repository of Microsoft Visual Studio Code. A vulnerability in VS Code's issue management function and a lack of ...
Bleeping Computer

GitHub enables push protection by default to stop secrets leak

GitHub has enabled push protection by default for all public repositories to prevent accidental exposure of secrets such as access tokens and API keys when pushing new code. Today's announcement comes ...