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 details ...

The breach, now known to have begun in March, raises questions about why it took six months for Salesloft to detect the ...

Dozens of npm libraries, including a color library with over 2 million downloads a week, have been replaced with novel ...

At least 18 popular JavaScript code packages that are collectively downloaded more than two billion times each week were ...

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. A Russian security researcher was ...

Daniel Moritz-Rabson is a breaking news reporter for Newsweek based in New York. Before joining Newsweek Daniel interned at PBS NewsHour Weekend, BBC Travel and NBC's owned and operated stations. He ...

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 ...

A Russian hacker dramatically demonstrated one of the most common security weaknesses in the Ruby on Rails web application language. By doing so, he took full control of the databases GitHub uses to ...