A GitHub member was briefly suspended on Sunday after he exploited a vulnerability in the code repository's systems without first telling GitHub he was going to do so. Egor Homakov's hack caused ...

An unknown hacker has temporarily taken control over the GitHub account of the Gentoo Linux organization and embedded malicious code inside the operating system's distributions that would delete user ...

GitHub says unknown attackers have stolen encrypted code-signing certificates for its Desktop and Atom applications after gaining access to some of its development and release planning repositories.

Lawfirm Tycko & Zavareei LLP has filed a class-action lawsuit against source-code hosting site GitHub for its link to a massive Capital One hack, alleging the company is guilty of negligence, ...

A user has hacked into the official GitHub-hosted Ruby on Rails code repository and bug tracker on Sunday in order to show the Rails development team how serious a vulnerability was. Ruby on Rails, ...

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 ...