Security News

NSA Opens Github Account — Lists 32 Projects Developed by the Agency (The Hackers News)
2017-06-21 00:01

The National Security Agency (NSA) — the United States intelligence agency which is known for its secrecy and working in the dark — has finally joined GitHub and launched an official GitHub page....

Keybase Extension Brings End-to-End Encrypted Chat To Twitter, Reddit, GitHub (Threatpost)
2017-05-25 18:43

A recently released extension for Chrome, developed by the public key crypto database Keybase, brought end-to-end encrypted messaging to several apps this week.

Microsoft is Shutting Down CodePlex, Asks Devs To Move To GitHub (The Hackers News)
2017-04-03 03:12

Microsoft has announced to shut down CodePlex -- its website for hosting repositories of open-source software projects -- on December 15, 2017. Launched in 2006, CodePlex was one of the...

Github Repository Owners Targeted by Data-Stealing Malware (Threatpost)
2017-03-30 18:29

Owners of Github repositories were the focus of a phishing campaign spreading the Dimnie information-stealing malware.

Widespread Email Scam Targets Github Developers with Dimnie Trojan (The Hackers News)
2017-03-30 01:52

Open source developers who use the popular code-sharing site GitHub were put on alert after the discovery of a phishing email campaign that attempts to infect their computers with an advanced...