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Microsoft says Kremlin-backed hackers accessed its source and internal systems

reader comments 50 Microsoft said that Kremlin-backed hackers who breached its corporate network in January have expanded their access since then in follow-on attacks that are targeting customers and have compromised the company’s source code and internal systems. The intrusion, which the software company disclosed in January, was carried out by Midnight Blizzard, the name… Read More »

Red Hat’s new source code policy and the intense pushback, explained

Enlarge / A be-hatted person, tipping his brim to the endless amount of text generated by the conflict of corporate versus enthusiast understandings of the GPL. Getty Images reader comments 123 with When CentOS announced in 2020 that it was shutting down its traditional “rebuild” of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) to focus on its… Read More »

Massive Yandex code leak reveals Russian search engine’s ranking factors

Enlarge / The Russian logo of Yandex, the country’s largest search engine and a tech company with many divisions, inside the company’s headquarters. SOPA Images / Getty Images reader comments 34 with 0 posters participating Share this story Nearly 45GB of source code files, allegedly stolen by a former employee, have revealed the underpinnings of… Read More »

Pioneering Apple Lisa goes “open source” thanks to Computer History Museum

Enlarge / The Apple Lisa 1, released in 1983. Apple, Inc. reader comments 54 with 0 posters participating Share this story As part of the Apple Lisa’s 40th birthday celebrations, the Computer History Museum has released the source code for Lisa OS version 3.1 under an Apple Academic License Agreement. With Apple’s blessing, the Pascal… Read More »

Okta says source code for Workforce Identity Cloud service was copied

Getty Images reader comments 26 with 0 posters participating Share this story Single sign-on provider Okta said on Wednesday that software code for its Okta Workforce Identity Cloud service was copied after intruders gained access to the company’s private repository on GitHub. “Our investigation concluded that there was no unauthorized access to the Okta service,… Read More »