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The injected JavaScript used to smash anti-Great Firewall of China GitHub projects offline (The Register)
2015-03-27 18:38

GitHub Hit With DDoS Attack (Threatpost)
2015-03-27 15:54

A large-scale DDoS attack, apparently emanating from China, has been hammering the servers at GitHub over the course of the last 12 hours, periodically causing service outages at the code-sharing...

GitHub ordered to hand over access logs to Uber
2015-03-26 09:48

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/03/25/github_ordered_to_hand_over_user_data_to_uber/ By Kieren McCarthy The Register 25 Mar 2015

GitHub ordered to hand over access logs to Uber (The Register)
2015-03-25 03:38

Uber’s epic DB blunder is hardly an except ion. GitHub is awash in passwords
2015-03-05 09:41

http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/03/ubers-epic-db-blunder-is-hardly-an-exception-github-is-awash-in-passwords/ By Dan Goodin Ars Technica March 4, 2015

Ubers epic DB blunder is hardly an exception. GitHub is awash in passwords (ArsTechnica)
2015-03-05 02:19

In major goof, Uber stored sensitive database key on public GitHub page
2015-03-03 09:22

http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/03/in-major-goof-uber-stored-sensitive-database-key-on-public-github-page/ By Dan Goodin Ars Techica March 2, 2015

Fork me! Uber hauls GitHub into court to find who hacked database of 50,000 drivers (The Register)
2015-02-28 03:19

GitHub bans weak passwords after brute-force attacks
2013-11-21 06:16

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9244201/GitHub_bans_weak_passwords_after_brute_force_attacks By Lucian Constantin IDG News Service November 20, 2013

Hacker commandeers GitHub to prove Rails vulnerability
2012-03-06 06:07

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/03/hacker-commandeers-github-to-prove-vuln-in-ruby.ars By Dan Goodin Ars Technica March 5, 2012