GitHub has shared a timeline of this month's security breach when a threat actor gained access to and stole private repositories belonging to dozens of organizations. The attacker used stolen OAuth ...

Philippe Caturegli, “chief hacking officer” at the security consultancy Seralys, was the first to publicize the leak of credentials for an x.ai application programming interface (API) exposed in the ...

GitHub users accidentally exposed 12.8 million authentication and sensitive secrets in over 3 million public repositories during 2023, with the vast majority remaining valid after five days. This is ...

The Shiny Hunters hacking group said it stole 500 GB of data from the tech giant’s repositories on the developer platform, which it owns. Hackers have broken into Microsoft’s GitHub account and stolen ...

A scan of billions of files from 13 percent of all GitHub public repositories over a period of six months has revealed that over 100,000 repos have leaked API tokens and cryptographic keys, with ...

GitHub topped research firm's Gartner's inaugural Magic Quadrant report on vendors of AI code assistants, leading in both completeness of vision and ability to execute. That's perhaps unsurprising as ...

Microsoft-owned GitHub pioneered the AI coding assistant space in 2021 with the introduction of Copilot, based on a large language model (LLM) called Codex derived from OpenAI's GPT-3, and a new Magic ...