Security News

An unknown hacker yesterday successfully managed to hack into the official GitHub account of Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu Linux project and created 11 new empty repositories. It...

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles and podcasts: Attackers are exploiting WordPress plugin flaw to inject malicious scripts Attackers are leveraging an...

Your repo's dependencies need updating to close a hole? We're way ahead of you, pal GitHub can now automagically offer security patches for projects' third-party dependencies.…

GitHub, the largest code-hosting site in the world, has announced many new features and changes at the 2019 GitHub Satellite conference that took place last week in Berlin. The feature that drew...

Microsoft-owned GitHub on Thursday announced the introduction of several new security tools and features designed to help developers secure their code. read more

Hapless soul repents 'unintentionally' sharing drone makers privates in repo A Chinese software developer who previously expressed suicidal thoughts has been jailed after putting one of drone...

Free code repositories on the Microsoft-owned GitHub have been abused since at least mid-2017 to host phishing websites, according to researchers from Proofpoint. read more

Researchers have found that one of the most popular source code repositories in the world is still housing thousands of publicly accessible user credentials.

Researchers from Trend Micro have come across a new piece of malware that abuses GitHub and Slack for command and control (C&C) communications. read more

Panic, flee, cry – or just update Windows for fsck's sake A new malware strain tapped into GitHub posts and Slack channels to siphon precious data from infected Windows PCs, it is claimed.…