On GitHub: Numerous fakes of well-known Mac apps are circulating

In what appears to be a concerted effort, scammers are trying to distribute fake apps for Mac users. It is unclear what the purpose of this is.
SecurityWeek

GitHub Copilot Chat Flaw Leaked Data From Private Repositories

A vulnerability in the GitHub Copilot Chat AI assistant led to sensitive data leakage and full control over Copilot’s ...
Bleeping Computer

Some GitHub Downloads Blocked in Chrome and Firefox Due to Safe Browsing Warning

UPDATE: After eight hours, the issue is now fixed. Original article below. Safe Browsing errors shown in Google Chrome and Firefox are blocking users from downloading binary files from GitHub. The ...

Banking malware used GitHub for persistence

GitHub has also been used for malware distribution in the past, with Microsoft Security unravelling a convoluted redirection ...
Visual Studio Magazine

One-Click VS Code in Browser from GitHub Repo ('How Did I Not Know This?')

Hundreds of developers expressed amazement at a new preview feature introduced this month by GitHub: the ability to instantly open up Visual Studio Code in a browser in order to edit the source code ...
Bleeping Computer

Here's how a researcher broke into Microsoft VS Code's GitHub

This month a researcher has disclosed how he broke into the official GitHub repository of Microsoft Visual Studio Code. A vulnerability in VS Code's issue management function and a lack of ...
InfoWorld

How GitHub won software development

Collaborating on code used to be hard. Then Git made branching and merging easy, and GitHub took care of the rest.