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GitLab is a company that doesn’t pull any punches or try to be coy. It actually has had a page on its website for sometime stating it intends to go public on November 18, 2020. You don’t see that level of transparency from late-stage startups all that often. Today, the company announced a huge $268 […] Continue reading GitLab hauls in $268M Series E on 2.768B valuation
Popular enterprise news and research site The New Stack is coming to TechCrunch Sessions: Enterprise on September 5 for a special Pancake & Podcast session with live Q&A, featuring, you guessed it, delicious pancakes and awesome panelists! Here’s the “short stack” of what’s going to happen: Pancake buffet opens at 7:45 am on Thursday, September […] Continue reading Join The New Stack for Pancake & Podcast with Q&A at TC Sessions: Enterprise
The hacker who allegedly infiltrated Capital One to access personal information belonging to roughly 106 million people made it easy for the FBI to track her down: there were clues spread across a variety of popular websites. Paige A. Thompson, a 33-year-old Seattle-based software engineer, bragged about taking data from Capital One’s Amazon Web Services instances on a private Slack channel and a public GitHub post from an account that displayed her full name. When another GitHub user noticed Thompson’s claims, they alerted Capital One, and it wasn’t long before the bureau was involved. In one private message included in the complaint, Thompson allegedly told a friend via Slack, “I’ve basically strapped myself with a bomb vest, f—ing dropping Capital One dox and admitting it. I wanna distribute those buckets …There’s SSNs..with full name and [date of birth].” Thompson’s Github page also linked to her GitLab profile, which included her […]
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SupPy Chain Malware – Detecting malware in package manager repositories, Attacking SSL VPN, Solving Digital Transformation Cybersecurity Concerns With DevSecOps, How I Could Have Hacked Any Instagram Account, Tracking Anonymized Bluetooth Dev… Continue reading Application News – Application Security Weekly #70
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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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
In the news, Google patches critical remote code execution bugs in Android OS, A new data breach may have exposed personal information of almost every American adult, Facebook acknowledges it shared user data with 61 companies, social media apps are &#… Continue reading Facebook, Google, & GitLab – Application Security Weekly #23
Microsoft’s come a long way in the past 10 years, since former chief Steve Ballmer called open-source a malignant cancer. Continue reading Microsoft faces wrath of developers after GitHub acquisition
After recent talks, Microsoft has now officially confirmed that it will be merging GitHub to master. The acquisition will cost $7.5 billion, and has received mixed reactions so far. A staple of the open source community, GitHub is well known to Hackaday readers, and has played a key role in developing an incredible amount of the software we use on a daily basis.
Microsoft has embarked on a community crusade of late, seemingly trying to win some respect from developers and makers. Under the encouragement of Satya Nadella, we’ve had Visual Studio Code, Typescript, the Ubuntu-on-Windows saga, and many more. …read more
Gitlab told Motherboard that the company gained 50,000 new projects in the lead up to Microsoft’s announcement that it acquired Github. Continue reading 13,000 Projects Ditched GitHub for GitLab Monday Morning