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 ...

The attack started only about day ago and has also been hitting code repositories on similar services Bitbucket and GitLab. To break in, the hacker appears to be targeting accounts with weak passwords ...

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 ...

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YARMOUTH, Maine – It’s been a hard year for security at identity and access management company Okta, with its most recent data breach incident causing the company to lose its source code to threat ...

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 ...

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 ...

Red Hat had a really unpleasant surprise last week. Its Ceph community site, which hosts development for the open-source Ceph distributed object store, and the Inktank download site, the commercial ...