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 ...

GitHub says unknown attackers have stolen encrypted code-signing certificates for its Desktop and Atom applications after gaining access to some of its development and release planning repositories.

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 ...

A hacker has gained access to a Microsoft employee's GitHub account and has downloaded some of the company's private GitHub repositories. The intrusion is believed to have taken place in March, and ...

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 ...

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 ...