XDA Developers on MSN

A poisoned VS Code extension led to a GitHub breach, and Microsoft owns every link in the chain

Microsoft has had a VS Code extension for a long time, and it finally came back to bite them.
The Hacker News

GitHub Internal Repositories Breached via Malicious Nx Console VS Code Extension

GitHub lost 3,800 internal repos after poisoned Nx Console update exposed developer credentials and supply-chain risk.
Visual Studio Magazine

One-Click VS Code in Browser from GitHub Repo ('How Did I Not Know This?')

Hundreds of developers expressed amazement at a new preview feature introduced this month by GitHub: the ability to instantly open up Visual Studio Code in a browser in order to edit the source code ...
TheServerSide

Git fork vs. clone: What's the difference?

The key difference between Git clone and fork comes down to how much control and independence you want over the codebase once you've copied it. Any public Git repository can be forked or cloned. A ...
Bleeping Computer

Here's how a researcher broke into Microsoft VS Code's GitHub

This month a researcher has disclosed how he broke into the official GitHub repository of Microsoft Visual Studio Code. A vulnerability in VS Code's issue management function and a lack of ...
TechRepublic

How to clone a GitHub repository: A quick tutorial

Jack Wallen shows you how easy it is to clone a repository from GitHub. Git is the most widely-used distributed version control system on the planet. It’s free, open-source and can handle anything ...