Category Archives: Bitbucket

Git Code Repos Held to Ransom – Thousands Hacked

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Many private Git repositories are at risk of being leaked to the public. Anonymous hackers have wiped the code and are demanding Bitcoin. Or else they’ll open-source it for you. And then everyone will be able to read your soopah-sekrit sores.
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Attackers breached Docker Hub, grabbed keys and tokens

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Docker, the company behing the popular virtualization tool bearing the same name, has announced late on Friday that it has suffered a security breach. There was no official public announcement. Instead, the company sent an alert to potentially affected… Continue reading Attackers breached Docker Hub, grabbed keys and tokens→

GitLab raises $100M

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GitLab, the developer service that aims to offer a full lifecycle DevOps platform, today announced that it has raised a $100 million Series D funding round at a valuation of $1.1 billion. The round was led by Iconiq. As GitLab CEO Sid Sijbrandij told me, this round, which brings the company’s total funding to $145.5 million, will […] Continue reading GitLab raises $100M→

Bad Code Library Triggers Devil’s Ivy Vulnerability in Millions of IoT Devices

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Tens of millions of products ranging from airport surveillance cameras, sensors, networking equipment and IoT devices are vulnerable to a flaw that allows attacks to remotely gain control over devices or crash them. Continue reading Bad Code Library Triggers Devil’s Ivy Vulnerability in Millions of IoT Devices→

Code Reuse a Peril for Secure Software Development

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Open source and third-party software bugs haunt even the best developers’ projects, despite the industry’s best efforts to avoid them. Continue reading Code Reuse a Peril for Secure Software Development→