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Careless Tata staffer accidentally leaks troves of banking data to GitHub

13

Jun

2017

A developer working with Tata Consulting Services in Kolkata, India has leaked troves of internal documents to GitHub, the web-based version control repository and Internet hosting service. Financial institutions whose files were leaked had mixed responses, with some ignoring the notice that their internal files were out in the open for competitors or hackers to use.

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Add GitHub dorking to list of security concerns

12

May

2015

One of the big lessons that we’ve learned in the last ten years is that even little pieces of once disparate data, gathered in a single location, can yield startling truths. With #facebook, that lesson crystallized with the introduction of its Graph Search feature in 2013, when the online world realized – to its horror […]

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Chinese government linked to largest DDoS attack in GitHub history

07

Apr

2015

On March 26, 2015, a very well-coordinated distributed denial of service (#ddos) #attack was waged on GitHub, the heir apparent to the now-closing Google Code. GitHub characterized this as the largest DDoS in its history. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EEF) and security researchers Netresec name the Chinese government as the culprits of the attack, which […]

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