Pierluigi Paganini
June 03, 2015
Security experts Ben Cox explained that the official Github repositories of the UK Government, Spotify, and Python were accessed using compromised SSH keys. Ben Cox, engineer at CloudFlare revealed that the official Github repositories of the UK Government, Spotify, and Python were accessed by using legitimate SSH keys. It seems that the keys were compromised […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 01, 2015
A security researcher discovered a couple of security issues on GitHub platform explaining how it is possible to exploit them in real attack scenarios. The researcher David Sopas (@dsopas) from Websegura discovered a couple of security issues in the coding website GitHub that were ranked by the company as minor, but that could expose users to cyber attacks. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 28, 2015
The Chinese Government is suspected for the large-scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that hit the popular GitHub website. The popular coding website Github suffered a large-scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that lasted more than 24 hours starting from Thursday night. The attack exploited the redirection of users who were connecting to many other websites on the […]
