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A Microsoft DevSecOps Static Application Security Testing (SAST) Exercise

August 21, 2018 Aug 21, 2018 08/21/18
Michael C. Fanning
Static Application Security Testing (SAST) is a critical DevSecOps practice. As engineering organizations accelerate continuous delivery to impressive levels, it’s important to ensure that continuous security validation keeps up. To do so most effectively requires a multi-dimensional application of static analysis tools. The more customizable the tool, the better you can shape it to your actual security risk.

Enabling administrators to revoke VSTS access tokens

July 24, 2018 Jul 24, 2018 07/24/18
Justin Marks
As promised in the Protecting our users from the ESLint NPM package breach blog post last week, we have deployed new REST APIs to allow administrators of Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) accounts to centrally revoke Personal Access Tokens (PAT) and JSON Web Tokens (JWT) created by users in their accounts. We've reviewed our system ...

Protecting our users from the ESLint NPM package breach

July 18, 2018 Jul 18, 2018 07/18/18
Rajesh Ramamurthy (MSFT)
On the 12th of July 2018, malicious code was detected in two popular open-source NPM packages, eslint-scope (version 3.7.2) and eslint-config-eslint (version 5.0.2). As a result, developers who downloaded and installed these packages may have had credentials stored in their .npmrc file compromised. This may include credentials required to ...

If I am a VSTS Stakeholder, can I also be an Admin?

July 5, 2018 Jul 5, 2018 07/5/18
Paris Morgan
Today, we’re excited to announce that users with the Stakeholder access level can now be administrators in Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS). With these upcoming changes, Stakeholders can administer access levels, permissions, and settings – if they have been granted permissions to do so. Previously, they were only able to invite users ...

Remediating the May 2018 Git Security Vulnerability

May 29, 2018 May 29, 2018 05/29/18
Edward Thomson
The Git community has disclosed an industry-wide security vulnerability in Git that can lead to arbitrary code execution when a user operates in a malicious repository. This vulnerability has been assigned CVE 2018-11235 by Mitre, the organization that assigns unique numbers to track security vulnerabilities in software. Git 2.17.1 was ...

VSTS Public Projects Limited Preview

April 27, 2018 Apr 27, 2018 04/27/18
Jamie Cool
Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) offers a suite of DevOps capabilities to developers including Source control, Agile planning, Build, Release, Test and more. But until now all these features require the user to first login using a Microsoft Account before they can be used.  Today, we’re starting a limited preview of a new capability that...

Deadline extended for connecting VSTS accounts to AzureAD

March 28, 2018 Mar 28, 2018 03/28/18
Justin Marks
On January 5, 2018, I announced that Visual Studio Team Services will no longer allow creation of new MSA users with custom domain names backed by AzureAD.  While most customers agree with the direction of this change, I got clear feedback that they could not connect their VSTS to AzureAD by the March 31 deadline.  Based on this feedback, we...