GitHub is just the latest victim of TeamPCP, a gang that has carried out a spree of software supply chain attacks that has impacted hundreds of organizations.
Sometime in early 2025, an attacker slipped malicious code into a Visual Studio Code extension, and a GitHub employee installed it. For several days, that extension ran quietly on the developer’s ...
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Piling on guardrails is the sign of a system permanently compensating for its own unreliability. There’s a better approach.
For roughly 18 years, a chunk of code inside one of the internet’s most popular web servers quietly carried a critical security flaw. Nobody caught it. Not the open-source contributors who maintained ...
Tech CEOs are making ambitious claims about AI's coding capabilities. In March, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said "we'll be there in three to six months — where AI is writing 90% of the code." Meta's ...