A GitHub flaw, or possibly a design decision, is being abused by threat actors to distribute malware using URLs associated with Microsoft repositories, making the files appear trustworthy. While most ...

GitHub was intended to be an open software collaboration platform, but it’s become a platform for much, much more than code. It’s now being used by artists, builders, home owners, everyone in between, ...

I’d like to use the Git and GitHub programming tools on my Mac. Are they easy to learn? Git, along with its popular web-based companion GitHub, sits alongside popular programming languages such as ...

GitHub is the host with the most for open-source projects and programmers who want to share and collaborate on code. Here’s why. GitHub is at heart a Git repository hosting service, i.e. a cloud-based ...

GitHub is suffering a DDoS attack deemed the largest in the website's history and believed to originate from China. The coding website is a popular repository for projects from game engines to ...

Earlier this month, Armin Ronacher, a prominent open-source developer, was experimenting with a new code-generating tool from GitHub called Copilot when it began to produce a curiously familiar ...

Free for students and maintainers of popular open-source projects Free for students and maintainers of popular open-source projects is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all ...

"On Oct. 1, 2020, any new repositories you create will use main as the default branch, instead of master," the company said. Existing repositories that have "master" set as the default branch will be ...

GitHub has served as a backbone of the open source development community, but a group of developers says the company's ICE contract puts them at odds.

The WebRAT malware is now being distributed through GitHub repositories that claim to host proof-of-concept exploits for ...