GitHub, Copilot and Microsoft

Copilot exposes private GitHub pages, some removed by Microsoft
Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant is exposing the contents of more than 20,000 private GitHub repositories from companies including Google, Intel, Huawei, PayPal, IBM, Tencent and, ironically, Microsoft.
Thousands of exposed GitHub repositories, now private, can still be accessed through Copilot
Lasso extracted a list of repositories that were public at any point in 2024 and identified the repositories that had since been deleted or set to private. Using Bing’s caching mechanism, the company found more than 20,000 since-private GitHub repositories still had data accessible through Copilot, affecting more than 16,000 organizations.
Thousands of GitHub repositories exposed via Microsoft Copilot
Thousands of private GitHub repositories, some of which possibly contained credentials and other secrets, are being exposed through Microsoft Copilot, the company’s Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) virtual assistant, experts have warned. Cybersecurity researchers from Lasso reported their findings to Microsoft but got a mixed response.
Microsoft Copilot continues to expose private GitHub repositories
A recent post alleged that ChatGPT (and, by association, Microsoft Copilot) was capable of accessing data from private GitHub repositories.
Microsoft added GitHub Copilot in Windows Terminal Canary for free
Microsoft included GitHub Copilot for free in Windows Terminal Canary to help coders with their projects. Here's how to get it now.
Chatbots are surfacing data from GitHub repositories that are set to private
Popular chatbot services like Copilot and ChatGPT could theoretically be exploited to access GitHub repositories that their owners have set to private. According to Israeli security
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Copilot will no longer provide you with illegal ways to activate Windows and Office
You could activate Windows 11 using Copilot, by asking the model to provide you with ways to do so. Now, you can't anymore.
Microsoft Copilot is helping people pirate Windows 11
Of course, activating Windows 11 in a less-than-legitimate way is nothing new. And the script that Copilot provides ...
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GitHub CoPilot speeds the transition from Windows Solutions to ARM
ARM's extension has been released for GitHub Copilot, making ARM-based technology more accessible and developer-friendly for ...