The flaw, classified as high severity and tracked as CVE-2021-3560, impacts polkit, an authorization service that is present by default in many Linux distributions. The security hole was discovered by Kevin Backhouse of the GitHub Security Lab. On Thursday, the researcher published a blog post detailing his findings, as well as a video showing the […]
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For its annual State of the Octoverse report, GitHub has analyzed over 45,000 active code directories to provide insight into open source security (vulnerabilities) and developers’ practices regarding vulnerability reporting, alerting and remediation. The Microsoft subsidiary found that security vulnerabilities often go undetected for more than four years before being disclosed. Additional findings Security vulnerabilities […]
The software development platform GitHub has suffered what is apparently the biggest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on record.
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