GitHub hacked - Code explained.
Posted on Wednesday, March 07, 2012 by Tenderfoot
GitHub hacked with Ruby on Rails public key vulnerability
Github, the service that many professional programmers use to store their work and collaborate on coding, was hacked over the weekend. A young Russian developer Egor Homakov exploited a gaping vulnerability in GitHub that allowed him (or anyone else with basic hacker know-how) to gain administrator access to projects such as Ruby on Rails, Linux, and millions of others.
Offical Source :- https://github.com/blog/1068-public-key-security-vulnerability-and-mitigation
Github, the service that many professional programmers use to store their work and collaborate on coding, was hacked over the weekend. A young Russian developer Egor Homakov exploited a gaping vulnerability in GitHub that allowed him (or anyone else with basic hacker know-how) to gain administrator access to projects such as Ruby on Rails, Linux, and millions of others.
Offical Source :- https://github.com/blog/1068-public-key-security-vulnerability-and-mitigation
BIG Question How did he do ? check out here http://homakov.blogspot.in/2012/03/how-to.html
Saba
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