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A security research team has exposed a technique called Megalodon, which allows attackers to backdoor GitHub repositories at scale by exploiting weaknesses in CI workflow configurations. The implications are significant — open source supply chains are only as trustworthy as the automated pipelines running inside them, and this reveals a quiet, systemic vulnerability.
Shifting to a different kind of infrastructure concern, researchers presented findings at OARC forty-five on encrypting authoritative DNS traffic. Most encrypted DNS efforts have focused on the last mile between users and resolvers, but the authoritative layer has remained largely exposed. Closing that gap matters for privacy and integrity across the entire resolution chain.
And in civic technology news, a campaign called Stop Stratos has filed a formal referendum challenging what appears to be a planning or development initiative. The group is using direct democracy mechanisms to push back, and while details are still emerging, it represents a recurring pattern of communities reaching for legal tools when they feel technology-driven decisions are being made without them.
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