GitHACK! We are the vulnerability

Github is the main open code repository for all in the IT industry. Hackers uploaded a wide spread piece of Malware in different repositories across the platform. Malware copies any financial information, authentication information and private crypto keys. Github has always been hard handed with their security and user accessibility, that is why their hacking, although not completely surprising, is very startling and worrying. As developers we need to be more aware of the vulnerabilities of our code, repositories, computers …

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