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GitHub Resets Users’ Passwords Following Brute Force Attack

The web hosting development site GitHub reset a number of users’ passwords and revoked a slew of security authorizations this week following a wave of brute-force attacks. The web hosting development ...
PC World

GitHub bans weak passwords after brute-force attack results in compromised accounts

Popular source code repository service GitHub has recently been hit by a brute-force password-guessing attack that successfully compromised some accounts. “We sent an email to users with compromised ...
Computerworld

GitHub bans weak passwords after brute-force attacks

Popular source code repository service GitHub has recently been hit by a brute-force password-guessing attack that successfully compromised some accounts. “We sent an email to users with compromised ...
Infosecurity-magazine.com

GitHub Resets Passwords After Mass-scale Brute-force Attack

Brute-forcing, where perpetrators use automated software to methodically attempt to access online accounts using commonly used or easily guessed passwords (i.e., the account-holder’s name plus “123”), ...
InfoWorld

GitHub bans weak passwords after brute-force attack results in compromised accounts

Popular source code repository service GitHub has recently been hit by a brute-force password-guessing attack that successfully compromised some accounts. “We sent an email to users with compromised ...