The Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 source code leaks online

Various media outlets are reporting that the source code for the legacy operating systems Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 have leaked online.

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Microsoft Releases the Source Code You Wanted Almost 30 Years Ago

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, if you had a personal computer there was a fair chance it either booted into some version of Microsoft Basic or you could load and run Basic. There were other versions, of course, especially for very small computers, but the gold standard for …read more

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How to prevent azure pipelines (yaml) from being used as an attack vector?

Let’s say the following scenario exists:

A git repository exists on Azure DevOps Repos.
The repository uses yaml pipelines (azure-pipelines.yml).
The repository has branch policies to ensure that changes go through pull requests.
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