Immediately after the 2011 break-in, the Linux Foundation began "mandating a fairly strict authentication policy for those developers who commit directly to the git repositories housing the Linux ...

A recently announced SHA-1 collision attack has the potential to break code repositories that use the Subversion (SVN) revision control system. The first victim was the repository for the WebKit ...

Google has previewed Code Wiki, an AI project that aims to document code in a repository and keep it up to date by ...

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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 cryptocurrency ...

Okta Inc. has experienced a data breach in which hackers accessed some of its source code repositories, BleepingComputer reported today. Nasdaq-listed Okta provides an identity management platform ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Martha Lambert introduces the "Observability ...

A hacker has been breaking into GitHub accounts, purportedly wiping the code repositories and then demanding a ransom in exchange to restore the information. The attack, which was initially noticed by ...

The attacks started earlier today, appear to be coordinated across Git hosting services (GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab), and it is still unclear how they are happening. What it is known is that the hacker ...

A recently announced SHA-1 collision attack has the potential to break code repositories that use the Subversion (SVN) revision control system. The first victim was the repository for the WebKit ...