A Github repository is basically a folder designed to store files. It is also available online for anyone to download, access, and contribute to the files/code within the folder.

GitHub has temporarily disabled its new search functionality after passwords, crypto keys and other credentials were exposed in search results.

Researchers share data on new technique whereby malicious actors are manipulating GitHub’s search function and using cleverly crafted repositories to distribute malware.

Nx supply chain attack on Aug 26, 2025 leaked 2,349 secrets via npm packages, risking GitHub and cloud accounts.

A scan of billions of files from 13 percent of all GitHub public repositories over a period of six months has revealed that over 100,000 repos have leaked API tokens and cryptographic keys, with ...

The compromise of GitHub Action tj-actions/changed-files has impacted only a small percentage of the 23,000 projects using it, with it estimated that only 218 repositories exposed secrets due to ...

GitHub built a new code-focused search engine in Rust because popular text search engines couldn't scale enough.