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Handful of OAuth bugs combine for GitHub session theft

10

Feb

2014

Almost two years after pointing out a public key vulnerability to GitHub, security researcher Egor Homakov has focused his attention on the service’s OAuth implementation.

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Expert Hacks Private Repositories on GitHub by Combining 5 Low-Severity Bugs

08

Feb

2014

Now that GitHub has launched a bug bounty program, many security researchers are taking a crack at the code repository. One of them is Egor Homakov, who has managed to gain access to private GitHub repositories by using a combination of 5 low-severity flaws. Separately, the 5 vulnerabilities cant be exploited to cause too much […]

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GitHub Down Due to DDOS Attack – 1/27/2014

27

Jan

2014

GitHub is currently experiencing a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack that prevents users from accessing some services. We are currently working to mitigate a DDoS attack. Some services will be unresponsive, reads a post form GitHub Status. GitHub is often disrupted by DDOS attacks. However, since theyre becoming used to such cyberattacks, the sites administrators have […]

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