Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, Socket, and North Carolina State University have unveiled a new tactic in cybercriminals’ arsenal: the exploitation of fake GitHub stars to promote ...
This is a series where we monitor GitHub trends and introduce repositories that are currently gaining attention. We alternate ...
GitHub, the world's largest software development platform, has a feature called ' Star ' that allows users to mark repositories and topics. Starring makes it easier to search for them later, and ...
The GitHub project REA (Reverse Engineer Anything) has garnered nearly 80,000 stars in just three days, topping today's GitHub Trending list.Article author and ...
New research from Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science shows that GitHub users increasingly buy or trade for fake stars, then use their ill-gotten gains to attract unsuspecting users so they ...
On GitHub, you can 'star' (similar to a like) repositories you find interesting. Many people display a graph of the star ...
I tested REA, GitHub's viral reverse engineering tool, on a 100 MB Electron app. Here's where its static analysis impressed ...
On GitHub, users can bookmark repositories by 'starring' them. The number of stars is seen as an indicator of a repository's popularity, and investors sometimes use this as a criterion for selecting ...
In May of this year, our open-source software startup Elementl closed a successful Series B round. In the run-up to the fundraising, I spent a fair amount of time preoccupied with GitHub stars. If you ...