Risky Business #838 -- GitHub investigates possible breach
Notes de l’épisode
On this week’s show Patrick Gray, Adam Boileau and James Wilson discuss the week’s cybersecurity news.
They cover:
- GitHub announced a possible breach
- CISA leaks important creds, keys in public repo
- Awful vulnerability in Bitlocker renders it useless without a PIN
- So. Many. Patches.
- Polish Government urges officials to ditch Signal for mSzyfr
- Much, much more
This week’s show is brought to you by Thinkst Canary. Thinkst’s founder, Haroon Meer, is this week’s sponsor guest. He joined James Wilson to talk about how doing “the basics” in security isn’t trivially easy.
This episode is also available on YouTube.
Show notes- GitHub on X: "We are investigating unauthorized access to GitHub’s internal repositories. While we currently have no evidence of impact to customer information stored outside of GitHub’s internal repositories (such as our customers’ enterprises, organizations, and repositories), we are closely" / X
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