0-click deanonymization attack targeting Signal, Discord, other platforms(gist.github.com)

1370 points by hackermondev 1 year ago | 417 comments

A GitHub Gist writeup by a 15-year-old researcher describing a 0-click deanonymization attack that locates users of Signal, Discord and other apps within about 250 miles.

1 bug, $50k in bounties, a Zendesk backdoor(gist.github.com)

1542 points by mmsc 2 years ago | 400 comments

A GitHub Gist write-up by a 15-year-old bug hunter describing a Zendesk bug affecting many Fortune 500 companies that earned over $50,000 in bounties.

Roc rewrites the compiler in Zig(gist.github.com)

322 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 237 comments

A GitHub Gist by Richard Feldman explaining why the Roc programming language's compiler is being rewritten from Rust in Zig.

Obfuscating Lua (2019)(gist.github.com)

39 points by shakna 2 years ago | 10 comments

Hofstadter on Lisp (1983)(gist.github.com)

360 points by Eric_WVGG 2 years ago | 204 comments

A GitHub Gist reproducing Douglas Hofstadter's 1983 Scientific American introduction to Lisp, "Atoms and Lists," from Metamagical Themas.

A phishing attack involving g.co, Google's URL shortener(gist.github.com)

345 points by zachlatta 1 year ago | 147 comments

A GitHub Gist by Zach Latta describing a sophisticated phone-based phishing attempt impersonating Google that abused the g.co domain to steal Google accounts.

Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices(github.com)

1087 points by Banditoz 2 months ago | 914 comments

GitHub issue on the Nitter repository reporting that all public Nitter instances have stopped working, shown with a Twiiit redirect proxy screenshot.

GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories(twitter.com)

527 points by splenditer 5 months ago | 289 comments

A post on X from GitHub stating it is investigating unauthorized access to its internal repositories, with no current evidence of impact to customer data.

Asterinas: OS kernel written in Rust and providing Linux-compatible ABI(github.com)

328 points by Klasiaster 2 years ago | 176 comments

GitHub repository for Asterinas, a secure, fast, general-purpose OS kernel written in Rust that provides a Linux-compatible ABI.

OpenCode Hacked: User credentials leaked(twitter.com)

794 points by pranshuchittora 8 days ago | 145 comments

OpenCode's post on X announcing a security breach tied to a large-scale distillation attack that affected 1.4% of OpenCode Console users.

We used an AI agent to fix an open-source bug. Someone asked to ban us(github.com)

9 points by maxcr 1 month ago | 2 comments

A GitHub pull request to the VisiData project submitted using an AI agent to fix a bug, which drew a request to ban the contributors.

DuckDuckGo removed the ability to filter search results(github.com)

319 points by Buildstarted 3 years ago | 227 comments

A GitHub commit to DuckDuckGo's help pages updating the search syntax page, removing 64 lines of search operator documentation.