Researchers at North Carolina State University (NCSU) have found that one of the most popular source code repositories in the world is still housing thousands of publicly accessible encryption keys. Over 100,000 code repositories on source code management site GitHub contain secret access keys that can give attackers privileged access to those repositories (repos) or …
OpenJDK, the basis for Oracle’s edition of standard Java (Java SE), soon could be hosted on GitHub, a move that could aid Java developers. Currently, repos for the OpenJDK project are on an Oracle-hosted Mercurial server. But Project Skara, which is an ongoing effort to examine new infrastructure for OpenJDK, could have the repos moving …
The European Commission has approved, under the EU Merger Regulation, the proposed $7.5 billion acquisition of GitHub by Microsoft. This significant move is expected to enhance Microsoft’s cloud capabilities and bolster its software development tools, potentially creating synergies that benefit developers around the world. However, amidst the excitement of the approval, Twitter has been flooded …
Microsoft has reportedly acquired GitHub, and could announce the deal as early as Monday. GitHub is a large code repository that has become popular with developers and companies hosting their projects, documentation, and code. Apple, Amazon, Google, and many other big tech companies use GitHub. Bloomberg reports that the software giant has agreed to acquire …
GitHub recently survived the largest-ever recorded distributed denial of service attack in history, experiencing roughly 10 minutes of disruption during the onslaught, which was amplified using exposed memcached servers — a vector that has seen a significant increase in abuse since last month. A Mar. 1 blog post by the GitHub Engineering team reported that …