Security News

Audit of GitHub SSH Keys Finds Many Still Vulnerable to Old Debian Bug (Threatpost)
2015-06-03 11:37

An audit of the SSH keys associated with more than a million GitHub accounts shows that some users have weak, easily factorable keys and many more are using keys that are still vulnerable to the...

Weak SSH keys opened many GitHub repositories to compromise (Help Net Security)
2015-06-03 10:37

Github repositories of many entities, projects, and even one government could have been compromised and used to deliver malicious code due to the owners' use of easily crackable SSH keys. "A little...

How Google saw the DDoS attack against Github and GreatFire (Help Net Security)
2015-04-27 10:37

The recent DDoS attacks aimed at GreatFire, a website that exposes China's internet censorship efforts and helps users get access to their mirror-sites, and GitHub, the world's largest code hosting se...

Google Provides Detailed Analysis of GitHub Attack Traffic (Threatpost)
2015-04-24 17:46

The high-profile DDoS attack against GitHub that went on for several days last month was the end result of am operation that included several phases and extensive testing and optimization by the...