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 ...

GitHub has taken down a repository by a user named “FreeSpeechEnthusiast” that contained Twitter’s proprietary source code after the social network filed a DCMA takedown request.

Essentially, Microsoft is adding a connector that taps the audit log of GitHub, a code repository for developers that's owned by Microsoft. This arrangement permits Sentinel users get various ...

So far, GitHub has scanned 12,000 repositories 1.4 million times, with the company’s Justin Hutchings saying that it’s caught 20,000 security issues.

Figure E Figure E: The location of the repository address in GitHub. Go back to VS Code, and click the Source Control icon in the left navigation (third from the top).

In May, a severe remote code execution flaw in Git software source code was patched. The bug, CVE 2018-11235, occurred due to mismanagement of remote repository definitions and data.

GitHub is at heart a Git repository hosting service, i.e. a cloud-based source code management or version control system, but that’s just the beginning.

GitHub has become the de facto tool for not only handling code, but it has also become the place to store tickets being worked on, see changes to code on projects, and even host websites and ...

As of Jan. 7, 2019, a developer can create a private GitHub repository in the free tier. Any software developers who want to try something new, experiment with a new language or start a project they ...