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 ...

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.

A security researcher warned Asus two months ago that employees were improperly publishing passwords in their GitHub repositories that could be used to ...

HackerOne, the number one hacker-powered pentesting and bug bounty platform, announced hackers earned a record $1.9M in bounties during Las Vegas live ...

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