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Fake stars undermine GitHub: 4.5 million fraudulent stars discovered

GitHub is grappling with the problem of fake stars artificially inflating the popularity of scam and malware ...

Mels Dees January 3, 2025

When Microsoft's JavaScript repository was growing faster than Office's, it was clear that something was wron...

Erik van Klinken October 29, 2024

GitHub has introduced new Activity View functionality in beta. This gives developers better insight into push...

Floris Hulshoff Pol June 2, 2023

IBM purchase of the venture-backed SaaS for Presto startup company further builds its open-source portfolio. ...

Joseph Brunoli April 17, 2023

An unauthorized user gained access to Slack's GitHub repositories. The user managed to download the repositor...

Geert van der Klugt January 5, 2023

Hackers increasingly target Python repositories. Security experts from Check Point recently discovered ten ma...

Geert van der Klugt August 10, 2022

JetBrains launched an on-premises beta of JetBrains Space. Users no longer depend on the hosted version. ...

Geert van der Klugt July 21, 2022

Another 17 malicious packages have been discovered in an open-source repository by researchers. In recent tim...

Kimanthi Sammy December 9, 2021

CPaaS company Twilio has fallen victim to the Codecov breach. Via the vulnerability in Codecov's software, an...

Emile Witteman May 6, 2021

New offerings include a long-awaited "Dark Mode". GitHub this week announced a number of new features and ...

Joseph Brunoli December 9, 2020