Slack suffered a security incident over the holidays affecting some of its private GitHub code repositories. The immensely popular Salesforce-owned IM app is used by an estimated 18 million users at ...

Microsoft Corp. today offered some good news for nonpaying users of its software code repository platform GitHub. Previously, free users were forced to host their code in public repositories but ...

Administrators can use IP whitelisting and two-step verification to have full control over who can view or work with private code repositories Atlassian recently added IP whitelisting and two-step ...

The technique exploits Unicode Private Use Area characters, which render as zero-width whitespace in virtually every code ...

If you’re a GitHub user, but you don’t pay, this is a good week. Historically, GitHub always offered free accounts but the caveat was that your code had to be public. To get private repositories, you ...

Until now, the most compelling reason to opt into the GitHub Pro paid product was because it enabled you to create a private repository. Developers could use GitHub's free offering -- with a ...

GitHub co-founder Chris Wanstrath, future GitHub CEO Nat Friedman, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, and Microsoft CFO Amy Hood. (Microsoft Photo) GitHub will kick off the new year by allowing free users ...

GitHub has announced that its enterprise-focused secret scanning tool for private repositories is now generally available. The Microsoft-owned code-hosting platform first debuted secret scanning for ...

“It is important to keep in mind that courts have found that the mere intent to keep the document confidential is insufficient.” Recently, I met with a potential client to discuss key points that ...

Researchers say they’ve discovered a supply-chain attack flooding repositories with malicious packages that contain invisible ...

GitGuardian, a cybersecurity platform that helps companies detect sensitive data hidden in public and private code repositories, has raised $12 million in a series A round of funding led by ...

A hacker claims to have stolen over 500GB of data from Microsoft's private GitHub repositories, BleepingComputer has learned. This evening, a hacker going by the name Shiny Hunters contacted ...