Tuesday, 6. March 2012
Topic: SECURITY - on March 6, 2012 at 11:04:00 AM CET
GitHub hacked, millions of projects at risk of being modified or deleted
GitHub, one of the largest repositories of commercial and open source software on the web, has been hacked. Over the weekend, developer Egor Homakov exploited a gaping vulnerability in GitHub that allowed him (or anyone else with basic hacker know-how) to gain administrator access to projects such as Ruby on Rails, Linux, and millions of others. Homakov could’ve deleted the entire history of projects such as jQuery, Node.js, Reddit, and Redis.
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