The GitHub Dependabot Token Incident: Retrospective
In 2023, attackers used stolen GitHub personal access tokens to push malicious commits masquerading as Dependabot; a short-sharp incident with lasting lessons.
Deep dives, practical guides, and incident analyses from engineers who build Safeguard. No fluff, no vendor FUD — just what you need to ship secure software.
In 2023, attackers used stolen GitHub personal access tokens to push malicious commits masquerading as Dependabot; a short-sharp incident with lasting lessons.
The Confluence broken access control zero-day from October 2023 hit thousands of self-hosted instances. A 2026 look at the exploit, the response, and the durable lessons.
The Change Healthcare ransomware attack knocked US healthcare payments offline for weeks. A missing MFA on a Citrix portal was the root cause United confirmed.
A technical reconstruction of the July 19 CrowdStrike Falcon sensor crash that grounded 8.5M Windows hosts, and what supply chain owners should change.
On July 19, 2024, a faulty CrowdStrike Falcon sensor update caused 8.5 million Windows machines to blue-screen worldwide, grounding flights, halting hospitals, and exposing the fragility of centralized security infrastructure.
Dropbox's 2022 GitHub phishing incident began with a developer-targeted CircleCI lookalike campaign; the supply chain lessons centered on CI tokens and code.
A reconstructed public timeline of Microsoft's Midnight Blizzard intrusion, from the initial password spray in November 2023 through the source code and federal agency disclosures.
A year after the XZ Utils backdoor was caught by Andres Freund at Microsoft, what did we fix, what did we ignore, and what still gets packaged into Linux distros?
Attackers used stolen credentials from infostealer malware to access Snowflake customer accounts without MFA, compromising data at Ticketmaster, Santander, AT&T, and over 160 other organizations.
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