The week in security: As bugs persist, maybe Australians really should care more about privacy
Australia’s government may have been moving to tighten data privacy and access laws but Australians
David Braue | 24 Sep | Read more
Australia’s government may have been moving to tighten data privacy and access laws but Australians
David Braue | 24 Sep | Read more
GitHub bolsters security features with the acquisition code analysis engine QL from Semmle.
GitHub's token scanning service now scans tokens issued by most major cloud providers.
GitHub offers new features and security enablers to help developers and enterprise securely adopt open source workflows.
GitHub's security service for developers could catch bugs before they're used in a massive hack.
Python flaws in GitHub repositories now automatically checked for known vulnerabilities.
Australian companies are being compromised at a “shocking” rate, a security specialist has warned as figures suggest identity theft is frighteningly common and that infiltration by malicious outsiders is a significant attack vector.
David Braue | 30 Apr | Read more
Concerns over the security of companies’ development cultures were validated for an Australian cybersecurity specialist after a recent global scan of GitHub projects identified more than 200,000 servers where developers had left hardcoded passwords and other sensitive information in publicly available source code.
David Braue | 27 Apr | Read more
GitHub was taken offline for 10 minutes by the biggest traffic attack on record.
Uber comes clean on UK users affected by its breach, but it's yet to reveal details about users in other countries.
Facebook's new tool won't kill passwords, but it could be a better way to recover a hijacked account than security questions and account recovery links.
Developers can use Project Wycheproof to test cryptographic algorithms against a library of known attacks to uncover potential weaknesses
Fahmida Y. Rashid | 20 Dec | Read more
It didn’t take long for hackers to leverage the newly released Mirai source code to build new Internet of Things (IoT) botnets, with an observed surge in Mirai-generated botnets.
David Braue | 24 Oct | Read more
Owners of fixed-code garage door openers might want to consider upgrading them because a researcher has developed a technique that guesses the numbers in seconds.
Lucian Constantin | 06 Jun | Read more
A number of high-profile source-code repositories hosted on GitHub could have been modified using weak SSH authentication keys, a security researcher has warned.
Lucian Constantin | 04 Jun | Read more