… We will take additional action as the investigation warrants. We will publish a fuller report once the investigation is complete. Written by Alexis Wales is the Chief Information Security Officer of GitHub. …
… The investigation for the February 9 incident raised a lot of important questions about why the user settings were stored in this particular database cluster and in this particular way. …
… As recent supply chain incidents have shown, we can’t rely on the security posture of every maintainer and repository in the ecosystem to prevent the introduction of malicious code. …
… SSH-based Git operations were not affected during either incident. Our investigation determined that both incidents shared the same underlying cause: a configuration change to a user settings caching mechanism caused a large volume of cache rewrites to occur simultaneously. …
… Produce an incident report using your team’s template and suggest next steps. .github/agents/incident-response.md --- name: Incident response description: Gather first-look incident data deploys, error rates, top endpoints, logs for a service and time window, then draft an incident report and next … …
… It helps catch exposed credentials early and prevents small mistakes from turning into real incidents. …