Page 30 - Continuous Integration News Today

GitHub Reacts to Growing Cryptocurrency Mining Attacks Using GitHub Actions Like by As the market capitalization of cryptocurrency surged from $190 billion in January of 2020 to $2 trillion in April of 2021, its become profitable for bad actors to make a full time job of attacking the free tiers of platform-as-a-service providers. Chartier describes how an attacker can abuse GitHub Actions cron feature to create new commits every hour with the aim to mine cryptocurrencies. Because devel...

Why the CI/CD pipeline is vulnerable to attack [Q&A] Recent high-profile supply chain attacks such as SolarWinds have highlighted how vulnerable the software development pipeline can be. To find out more about why the CI/CD pipeline is particularly vulnerable to attacks and what can be done to prevent them, we spoke to Vickie Li, developer evangelist at ShiftLeft, which has just launched a new product, ShiftLeft CORE, aimed at reducing risk to the software code base. BN: What is CI/CD? How does...

The world isn’t standing still, and neither is Allstate. We’re moving quickly, looking across our businesses and brands and taking bold steps to better serve customers’ evolving needs. That’s why now is an exciting time to join our team. You’ll have opportunities to take risks, challenge the status quo and shape the future for the greater good. You’ll do all this in an environment of excellence and the highest ethical standards – a place where values such as integr...

Copy JetBrains has released TeamCity Cloud, a hosted version of its Continuous Integration (CI) tool, with support for Kotlin DSL (Domain Specific Language) for configuring build pipelines. TeamCity was first released in 2006 but to date has only been an on-premises product. Its role is to run tests and builds so that code changes are compiled and (insofar as it can be automated) verified as ready for deployment. TeamCity does not itself build software, but instructs agents on build servers. An...

by Jen Rice and Anna Matlin Introduction Airbnb was born in the cloud. In 2008, while many companies were operating data centers, a few clicks on the AWS console brought Airbnb to life. From our first Ruby on Rails app, to our more recent adoption of service-oriented architecture, the ability to instantly spin up compute and storage has enabled our teams to move quickly and meet the growing demands of our business. However, the business value this nimbleness affords can quickly be offset by clo...

Must see: Dr Holly Cummins and Liz Fong-Jones to deliver keynotes Team Register Wed 28 Apr 2021 // 07:30 UTC Share Copy Event We’re really thrilled to announce the first two keynotes for Continuous Lifecycle Online, our three-day – 10-12 May, 2021 – virtual event bringing together some of the DevOps, Containers and CI/CD world’s brightest thinkers and doers. On day two, Dr Holly Cummins, senior technical staff member and innovation leader at IBM, will be talking ...

Job Description: The Data Engineer will work closely with the Data Architect and the Baseball Systems team to maintain, enhance, and extend the Brewers data pipelines. You will be responsible for collecting and transforming data from various sources as well as preparing and distributing data for consumption by the department’s systems and analysts. The ideal candidate is an experienced data pipeline builder who excels at automating and optimizing data systems, with a strong preference for clo...

Among the first of many? Software tools biz reports internal use of credential-stealing script Tim Anderson Mon 26 Apr 2021 // 19:35 UTC Share Copy HashiCorp, an open-source company whose Terraform product is widely used for automated cloud deployments, has revealed a private code-signing key was exposed thanks to the compromised Codecov script discovered earlier this month. Codecov, which provides tools to assess how much of an applications code is subject to unit tests...

HashiCorp is the latest victim of Codecov supply-chain attack By 02:16 AM Open-source software tools and Vault maker HashiCorp has disclosed a security incident that occurred due to the recent Codecov attack. HashiCorp, a Codecov customer, has stated that the recent Codecov supply-chain attack aimed at collecting developer credentials led to the exposure of HashiCorps GPG signing key. The private key is used by HashiCorp to sign and verify software releases, and has since been rotated as ...

Brisbane’s Octopus Deploy announces US$172.5m investment 22 Apr 2021 This marks the company’s first outside investment after eight years of organic growth and profitability. Octopus Deploy began in 2011 as a nights-and-weekends project for software developer Paul Stovell and Sonia Stovell, but became a profitable business in 2012. Since then, the company has grown consistently, now employing more than 100 people and preparing to open its first large office in Brisbane. Octopus Deplo...