Researchers at Truffle Security have found, or arguably rediscovered, that data from deleted GitHub repositories (public or private) and from deleted copies (forks) of repositories isn't ...

Data from private and deleted forks can be easily retrieved and directly accessed if a rogue third party knows the SHA-1 hash related to a commit. Every single commit saved on GitHub database ...

It’s a shame that GitHub doesn’t offer such functionality by default, but thanks to these projects the times of clicking through a hundred forks to find the freshest one is at least over. For now.

The malware campaign is a demonstration of how malicious actors can easily exploit GitHub's ability to automatically and efficiently fork code repositories, Apiiro said.

GitHub has shaken up the way software gets written, making coding a little more anarchic, a little more fun, ... that's called a “fork”. Back in the 1990s, forking was supposed to be a bad thing.

Community forks such as Pulsar will aim to keep Atom alive. Back in the summer, Microsoft-owned GitHub announced it would be sunsetting the Atom code editor in favor of other products such as ...