…alongside the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. CISA has been working with Instructure as one of the "outside forensics experts" the company refers to in its incident FAQs , helping to "contain the…
…Written by Alexis Wales is the Chief Information Security Officer of GitHub. She leads a team of security experts focused on safeguarding the GitHub platform, products and the open source community, empowering…
A reported software supply chain attack involving a malicious Visual Studio Code extension has exposed the growing security risks surrounding modern development environments. According to published reports, a hacker group known as…
…The company has since invalidated the token and added additional security measures to prevent a repeat incident. “The attacker attempted to blackmail us, demanding payment to prevent the release of our codebase…
https://www.reddit.com/r/canvas/comments/1taj9mk/instructure_just_confirmed_they_paid_the_ransom/ "We received assurances that it will not be further shared on the dark web or elsewhere, and we received proof that any co…
After working as a platform engineer for almost half a decade, one thing I developed is a strong hatred for cyber sec teams. I'm not sure if it's just me, but in every place I work they are seen by the business as the gu…
For over a decade, I’ve been doing bug bounty, security audits, and security consulting. And if there’s one thing I’ve seen repeatedly, it’s this:Most startups call a security engineer or hire a security agency only when…
The traditional vulnerability disclosure timeline relies on a fundamental assumption: exploit development and vulnerability discovery take time. Over the last 12 months the integration of LLMs into offensive tooling has …
Overview: On May 24, 2026, the data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) integrated a dataset originating from an April 2026 extortion campaign targeting 7-Eleven. The breach, attributed to the threat act…
Back to changelog Rule insights dashboard GitHub repository rulesets are powerful, but it hasn’t been easy to spot trends like spikes in blocked pushes during an incident or patterns in bypass…
…As security researcher Himanshu Anand wrote earlier this month, “The 90 day responsible disclosure window was built for a world where bug finders were rare and exploit development was slow. That world…
…The incident was reportedly serious enough to warrant a “Sev1” alert, the second-highest category of severity that Meta uses to label security incidents.
…Have I Been Pwned sifted through the data dump and shared that the “incident exposed 185k unique email addresses, along with names, physical addresses, dates of birth and phone numbers.” This has…
…security, the committee’s chair, Representative Andrew Garbarino, wrote in a letter to Instructure chief executive Steve Daly. U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA has been called in to help with the incident…
…Operating a dedicated Security Operations Centers (SOCs), specialized incident response teams, or 24/7 network monitoring capabilities can cost large enterprises millions of dollars alone. This gap in resources is why ransomware…
