How GitHub gave every repository a durable owner

GitHub has over 14,000 repositories across our primary internal GitHub organization. As of early 2025, there were over 11,000 non-archived repositories, the vast majority of which with no clear owner. For repositories attached to production services, we have historically had robust durable...

EUVD-2025-29490

Malicious code in bioql PyPI...

Cellular Privacy, SS7 Security Shattered at 31C3

The recently concluded Chaos Communications Congress 31c3 in Hamburg, Germany was an all-out assault on cellular call privacy and security. Of particular interest was the SS7 protocol used to route calls between switching centers. Researchers, doing parallel research as it turns out, found gaping...

April 911 Outage Impacted 3.5 Percent of U.S. Population

In the early hours of April 10, a series of errors led to a massive, multi-state outage in the emergency call management centers ECMCs that handle 911 calls in seven geographically dispersed states. The incident originated at an obscure but critical call routing hub in Englewood, Colo., and ended...

CVE-2004-0125

The jail system call in FreeBSD 4.x before 4.10-RELEASE does not verify that an attempt to manipulate routing tables originated from a non-jailed process, which could allow local users to modify the routing table...