GitHub is rolling out support for the free scanning of exposed secrets (such as credentials and auth tokens) to all public repositories on its code hosting platform. Secret scanning is a security ...

GitHub is struggling to contain an ongoing attack that’s flooding the site with millions of code repositories. These repositories contain obfuscated malware that steals passwords and cryptocurrency ...

Security researchers have unveiled a new instance of repojacking that affects millions of GitHub repositories. According to an advisory published last week by Aqua Security Software, the discovered ...

The software development platform GitHub allows users to manage projects by making repositories private, preventing code from being seen by anyone other than those involved. However, an investigation ...

Okta, a leading provider of authentication services and Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions, says that its private GitHub repositories were hacked this month. According to a 'confidential' ...

Cyberattackers in just the last few months have registered more than 100,000 — but by some estimates more than a million — malicious copycat repositories on GitHub. The "repo confusion" scheme is ...

AquaSec analyzed a sample of 1% of GitHub repositories and found that about 37,000 of them are vulnerable to RepoJacking, including the repositories of companies such as Google and Lyft. Millions of ...