A secretive network of around 3,000 “ghost” accounts on GitHub has quietly been manipulating pages on the code-hosting website to promote malware and phishing links, according to new research ...

At its Universe conference, GitHub announced a number of features aiming to make your code more protected. These include a dependency graph and, built on top of the former, security alerts.

Github, the collaborative platform for programmers, now has $100 million to finance its expansion into a full-fledged social network. Strikingly, this is the largest investment yet by venture firm ...