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 ...

"GitHub had an obligation, under California law, to keep off (or to remove from) its site Social Security numbers and other Personal Information," the suit says.

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.

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 ...

You can get Arch Linux files and programs from GitHub. Although not well-suited for new users, Arch Linux is a popular distro with a passionate fan base. So, why has someone been knocking down the ...

For an excellent analysis of the GitHub hack, and the underlying Rails vulnerability that made it all possible, see this post from Rob Graham of Errata Security.

Hacking the Political Platform: Why One Candidate Is Using Github This Congressional hopeful believes the code-management service will give voters a voice.

A Cloudflare-backed non-profit announced an open source free domain name project to help make the web truly free ...