Capital One and GitHub have been sued this week as part of a class-action lawsuit filed in California on allegations of failing to secure or prevent a security breach during which the personal details ...

Lawfirm Tycko & Zavareei LLP has filed a class-action lawsuit against source-code hosting site GitHub for its link to a massive Capital One hack, alleging the company is guilty of negligence, ...

The New York Times notified an undisclosed number of contributors that some of their sensitive personal information was stolen and leaked after its GitHub repositories were breached in January 2024.

A GitHub member was briefly suspended on Sunday after he exploited a vulnerability in the code repository's systems without first telling GitHub he was going to do so. Egor Homakov's hack caused ...

A Russian researcher was able to take five low severity OAuth bugs and string them together to create what he calls a “simple but high severity exploit” in Github. A Russian security researcher was ...

Microsoft's private GitHub account has been hacked in a major cybersecurity incident for the company. A hacker known as Shiny Hunters told BleepingComputer they had gained full access into Microsoft's ...

Gentoo GitHub hack: What happened? Late last month (June 28), the Gentoo GitHub repository was attacked after someone gained control of an admin account. All access to the repositories was soon ...

While many students have lost their internships for the summer over COVID-19 closures, a group of companies has come together to put coding students to work. Major League Hacking (MLH) and GitHub have ...

On April 9th of last year, someone called Iceeey proposed a change to an obscure document written by the federal government's Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The document wasn't that important.

A Russian hacker dramatically demonstrated one of the most common security weaknesses in the Ruby on Rails web application language. By doing so, he took full control of the databases GitHub uses to ...