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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...