Mackenzie Jackson

Mackenzie Jackson

Mackenzie is a developer advocate at GitGuardian, he is passionate about technology and building a community of engaged developers to shape future tools and systems.

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Crappy code, crappy Copilot. GitHub Copilot is writing vulnerable code and it could be your fault

Crappy code, crappy Copilot. GitHub Copilot is writing vulnerable code and it could be your fault

The promise of AI code assistance like Copilot was an exciting promise when released. But they might not be the answer to all your problems. A research study has now found that while Copilot frequently introduces vulnerabilities, it may in fact be influenced by the input. Poor code, poor outcome.

Samsung and Nvidia are the latest companies to involuntarily go open-source leaking company secrets

Samsung and Nvidia are the latest companies to involuntarily go open-source leaking company secrets

Nearly 200GB of source code from Samsung and the source code from Nvidia's latest DLSS technology has been published online by The Lapsus$ hacking group. Internal source code being leaked online by adversaries is happening with alarming regularity in recent years. Only

Mackenzie Jackson, GitGuardian: “code security needs to be a layered approach”

Mackenzie Jackson, GitGuardian: “code security needs to be a layered approach”

Security should be something that companies implement into the software development lifecycle as early as possible. It should be a consideration at every step of development, from design and through to deployment and every incremental change made thereafter.

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