GitHub’s actions/checkout v7 now blocks risky fork PR checkouts in privileged workflows to reduce common pwn request attacks.

So, thanks to a helpful Github employee on StackOverflow, I learned that GHA has a couple of helpful "features" that were tripping me up: - The 'checkout@v2' action by default only does a minimal ...

GitHub confirmed on May 20 that a poisoned VS Code extension installed on an employee’s device gave attackers access to roughly 3,800 internal repositories at the Microsoft-owned code storage and ...

GitHub has released Agentic Workflows in public preview, bringing coding agents into GitHub Actions for automated engineering ...

Many open-source repositories contain privileged GitHub Actions workflows that execute untrusted code and can be triggered by attackers to expose credentials and access tokens, as MITRE and Splunk ...

Yesterday, following a DMCA complaint from HackerRank, GitHub took down a repository that hosts the official SymPy project documentation website. First released fifteen years ago, SymPy is an open ...