“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 ...

Immediately after the 2011 break-in, the Linux Foundation began "mandating a fairly strict authentication policy for those developers who commit directly to the git repositories housing the Linux ...

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Okta Inc. has experienced a data breach in which hackers accessed some of its source code repositories, BleepingComputer reported today. Nasdaq-listed Okta provides an identity management platform ...

GitHub is struggling to contain an ongoing attack that’s flooding the site with millions of code repositories. These repositories contain obfuscated malware that steals passwords and cryptocurrency ...

It’s time for security teams to get serious about monitoring risks and vulnerabilities within development platforms. Whether an organization runs a number of open source tools or services, or if it ...

YARMOUTH, Maine – It’s been a hard year for security at identity and access management company Okta, with its most recent data breach incident causing the company to lose its source code to threat ...

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 ...

Home improvement giant Home Depot ($HD) recently discovered a very serious problem lurking in its internal systems. It was the kind of problem ...

A recently announced SHA-1 collision attack has the potential to break code repositories that use the Subversion (SVN) revision control system. The first victim was the repository for the WebKit ...