Source code repository software company GitHub today said that in the coming weeks it will roll out Protected Branches, a new feature that should help companies cut down on catastrophes stemming from ...

Open source and third-party software bugs haunt even the best developers’ projects, despite the industry’s best efforts to avoid them. The amount of insecure software tied to reused third-party ...

GitLab, a startup that provides open source and premium source code repository software that people use to collaborate on software, is announcing today that it has acquired Gitter, a startup that ...

Modern software applications are stitched together from thousands of third-party components fetched from public repositories. This reuse of code has major benefits for the software industry, reducing ...

“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 ...

Open source software is a fact of life for enterprise software developers, and GitHub is a fact of life for many open source software projects. The development platform and code repository has become ...

Thousands of GitHub repositories were copied with their clones altered to include malware, a software engineer discovered today. While cloning open source repositories is a common development practice ...

The Git Project has disclosed the existence of a severe vulnerability which can lead to the execution of arbitrary code. The vulnerability, CVE-2018-17456, was disclosed on Friday. The ...