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Microsoft’s recent acquisition of GitHub bagged a ton of negative reviews across the web and many developers even shifted their code to alternative platforms. Still, the GitHub is frequented by many and one of them is Alexander Prokhorov (Athari) who has come up with a rather fun project aimed at making GitHub more Microsoftish. Athari […]
Another day, another data breach – This time, it is Linux distribution Gentoo whose GitHub mirror was compromised and content of repositories was modified by unknown hackers. According to the official statement by the organization, the hack attack took place on June 28th at 20:20 UTC. The exact extent of the attack is still unknown however […]
The US President Donald Trump’s decision to separate family members crossing US borders illegally has resulted in the “arrest” of thousands of children in numerous holding camps across the country. The leaks of the images of children have sparked a widespread outrage, and different companies are issuing their statements and condemning the action. This wildfire has […]
Following rumors that surfaced late last week, Microsoft has confirmed the acquisition of GitHub code repository in $7.5 billion on Monday. The value announced by Microsoft is still higher than speculated in recent days. Microsoft was expected to pay $ 5 billion for the service. In 2015, GitHub was valued at $ 2 billion – it was […]
Kenna Security in collaboration with KrebsOnSecurity has identified the presence of a ‘widespread misconfiguration’ in Google Groups, which is causing exposure of sensitive emails from thousands of organizations including some Fortune 500 companies. Due to this misconfiguration, a variety of industries have been affected ranging from US government agencies, hospitals, and academic institutions to media […]
After a couple of days of rumors and speculations, Microsoft has officially announced that it’s acquiring GitHub for $7.5 billion. As per the company’s official blog post, Redmond has acquired GitHub for $7.5 billion in Microsoft stock. After the obvious closing conditions and regulatory formalities, the complete acquisition process is expected to close by the end of […]
It’s Official: Microsoft Acquires GitHub For $7.5 Billion Just a couple of days ago, Business Insider reported that coding site GitHub could soon become a part of Microsoft’s empire. The company currently values at $2 billion after it received $250 million in a 2015 funding round. In the latest development, as per Bloomberg, Microsoft has […]
A small but unspecified number of GitHub staff could have seen plaintext passwords. GitHub has said a bug exposed some user passwords — in plaintext. The code repository site, with more than 27 million users as of last year, sent an email to affected users Tuesday. “During the course of regular auditing, GitHub discovered that […]
At least 1,000 Magento based websites including shops have been targeted and infected with this malware. Threat analysis and cyber-security intelligence firm Flashpoint stated that cybercriminals have been targeting the open-source e-commerce platform Magento with malware since 2016. As a result, hundreds of e-commerce websites running via Magento have already been compromised by hackers to […]
Recently we informed our readers about how attackers are abusing the misconfigured Memcached servers to launch massive DDoS attacks. According to the observation of not one or two but three security firms, massive Memcached reflection distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are being launched with an unprecedented intensification factor of 50,000, which is the largest […]
For the last few days, hackers have been using vulnerable Memcached servers to conducted DDoS attacks including the massive attack on Github website and world’s largest ever 1.7 Tbps of DDoS attack on a US firm. Until now, to the masses, it was unclear how hackers are exploiting the vulnerability in Memcached servers but now, a set […]
Just recently, GitHub, the most famous code sharing and hosting platform, faced the world’s most powerful DDoS attack. As per GitHub, the website was unavailable for about 5 minutes (17:21 to 17:26 UTC) on February 28th as a result of this massive torrent of 1.2 Tbps traffic targetting the site all at once. Soon after the […]
The online version control and code distribution platform Github has suffered a series of massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on Wednesday, February 28, 2018, causing service disruption by forcing its website Github.com to go offline. In the first phase of the attack, Github’s website suffered a shocking 1.35 terabits per second (Tbps) spike while in the second phase Github’s network […]
Apple has been going through a rough phase lately and now the company is in hot waters again since the baseband source code for various iPhone models has been shared online. Needless to say that this would pave the way for software-based device unlocks. Apple had noted earlier that the iBoot source code leak was […]
In a short period of three years, GitHub’s open source code editor has become one of the most popular options around. In our list of top text editors for Linux, Atom was featured at #2. From time to time, GitHub keeps adding new features to this tool to make it even better. Just recently, with […]
Learning new skills can be helpful if you are looking to change careers. In case you end up learning a skill that’s in heavy demand, it turns out to be something that brings immense benefits and stay with you lifelong. In case you’re a programmer, learning a new programming language helps you expand your career […]
Developed by GitHub, Atom is a free and open source text editor that’s loved by developers. This desktop application is based on Electron. Now, in collaboration with Facebook, GitHub has announced the launch of Atom-IDE. What is Atom-IDE? Atom-IDE is a set of optional packages that you can download to bring an IDE-like functionality to […]
Short Bytes: GitHub has launched a new initiative to encourage people and organizations to contribute to open source projects. As a part of this initiative, one can start by contributing to some open source projects every Friday. The interested users can start by working on some open source tool that’s used by their company. Open source […]
Short Bytes: Microsoft has announced that it’s shutting down its open source code hosting service CodePlex. The website will be completely shut down in December, 2017. The backups will be made available to the users in common, transferable formats. Microsoft has also published a guide to help the devs shift their code to Github. In […]
A new series of malware attacks has occurred, and this time, the targets are the owners of Github repositories. Developers who own these repositories were a target of phishing emails that contained a malware capable of stealing data through keyloggers and modules that take screenshots. In January 2017, several of the developers at GitHub received […]
Short Bytes: GitHub recently launched a detailed guide about contributing to open source. Since long, newbies have struggled to find projects to contribute to and what exactly to start contributing to them. Veterans have struggled to make new contributors feel welcome and encouraged for contributions. The guide provides detailed timeline steps of what to look for, […]