Software and code repositories are a great resource for web and software developers – they save time, client’s money and get quality modules for their projects. GitHub is one of the most popular – with many major software players using it to develop their code and other developers, large and …
GitHub – probably one of the biggest targets for threat actors
GitHub is one of the most popular software repositories so it stands to reason that threat actors will always be searching for ways in as infecting code at source that is then reused in multiple applications is a cost-effective way to run a cyber attack. GitHub has just patched a …
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User’s not understanding what secure configurations are, is the first step towards a cyber security incident. UPDATED
This original post was made on 23 August 2022 Update 21 October 2022 There has been another “mis-configuration story this week – Microsoft exposed thousands of client records when they mis-configured a server. Following a report in the summer of patient information leaking from a health care company because of …
Software repositories are a target for threat actors
If you, as a threat actor, could embed your malware into a software module, that is then used by many innocent and unaware software developers in their packages, they release to the general public, wouldn’t you? That looks like a lot of infected machines for a small amount of work. …
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Because It’s Friday – Writing code is difficult…
Be More Like Dave – Dilbert Comic Strip on 2022-08-07 | Dilbert by Scott Adams …so you or your cyber security consultant should check any code (web app or software) you have written for you. How secure is open source software? Do you use open source software or have software …
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