About three years ago Microsoft released a new source code editor for Windows, Linux, and macOS. This was named Visual Studio Code. It is way lighter IDE than various editions of the legendary Visual ...

Meta’s Rust-powered linter and type checker for Python pairs blazing speed with advanced and innovative features.

A 34-vote social media poll showed 44.1 percent support for adding more database tooling options to Visual Studio, with 41.2 percent opposed and 14.7 percent choosing "Either way." Several responses ...

GitHub has confirmed that a recent breach into its internal repositories was caused by a vulnerability in a Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension called ‘Nx Console.’ The security team at ...

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

An industry effort involving CrowdStrike, Google and the Shadowserver Foundation has led to the disruption of the Glassworm botnet. Working together, the three organizations managed to simultaneously ...

The four C&C channels used by GlassWorm, the botnet targeting open source software developers, have been disrupted.

A GitHub employee installed a routine VS Code extension update, handed cybercrime group TeamPCP enough access to exfiltrate approximately 3,800 of GitHub's internal source code repositories — everythi ...

For more than a year, a self-propagating worm rode VS Code extensions, npm packages, and stolen developer credentials through ...

Supply chain chaos, old bugs, smarter phishing, and botnets everywhere — here’s what broke the internet this week.