On Wednesday, at about 12:15 pm EST, 1.35 terabits per second of traffic hit the developer platform GitHub all at once. It was the most powerful distributed denial of service attack recorded to ...

Furthermore, GitHub announced it would deprecate legacy classic tokens, as well as time-based one-time password (TOTP) 2FA, ...

Everything you need to know about ransomware: how it started, why it's booming, how to protect against it, and what to do if your PC is infected. Read now GitHub has revealed it was hit with what may ...

As ban on under-16s using some sites looms, cyber-safety regulator sends Microsoft’s code locker a letter Australia’s eSafety Commissioner has written to GitHub to ask it to consider if it’s a social ...

Since its inception, the Git DVCS tool's default branch name was set to master. Every Git repository had a master branch unless a developer took explicit steps to remove it, which was rarely ever done ...

GitHub has a problem with inauthentic "stars" used to artificially inflate the popularity of scam and malware distribution repositories, helping them reach more unsuspecting users. Stars are similar ...

Microsoft is paying $7.5 billion for the popular coder hangout GitHub as the maker of Windows further embraces the types of open-source projects it used to shun. CEO Satya Nadella said the all-stock ...