How GitOps Raises the Stakes for Application Security

The rise of GitOps comes from the industry’s increased adoption of Kubernetes. As organizations and teams shift towards Kubernetes, scaling their cluster management practices becomes imperative as teams and workloads grow in size. This is where G… Continue reading How GitOps Raises the Stakes for Application Security

GitHub gets a built-in IDE with Codespaces, discussion forums and more

Under different circumstances, GitHub would be hosting its Satellite conference in Paris this week. Like so many other events, GitHub decided to switch Satellite to a virtual event, but that isn’t stopping the Microsoft-owned company from announcing quite a bit of news this week. The highlight of GitHub’s announcement is surely the launch of GitHub […] Continue reading GitHub gets a built-in IDE with Codespaces, discussion forums and more

Does additional SSH access on top of HTTPS improve or harm the security of a self hosted Git server?

We have a self hosted git server in our company. It is reachable over the internet because our developers work together with external consultants, developers and other persons. Between the internet and the internal server is a reverse prox… Continue reading Does additional SSH access on top of HTTPS improve or harm the security of a self hosted Git server?

This Week in Security: Git, Patch Tuesday, Anti-Cheat, and Vulnerable Documentation

Git released an update on Tuesday, fixing an issue that could result in leaking credentials. The vulnerability was in how Git handles an HTTP URL containing a newline. Looking at the commits in 2.26.1, we can find an example of an attack:
url = "https://one.example.com?%0ahost=two.example.com/foo.git"

So doing a git pull …read more

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