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| 2018 || {{Dts|29 February}} || Cybercrime || GitHub suffers and survives a record 1.35-terabit-per-second denial of service attack, which is considered to be the world's largest distributed denial of service attack to date. During the assault, the popular code sharing website's admins notice thousands of systems and devices slamming GitHub's web server. It would later be explained that the attackers hijacked something called “memcaching” — a distributed memory system known for high-performance and demand — to massively amplify the traffic volumes that were being fired at GitHub, resulting in a huge influx of traffic.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Russell |first1=Jon |title=The world’s largest DDoS attack took GitHub offline for fewer than 10 minutes |url=https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/02/the-worlds-largest-ddos-attack-took-github-offline-for-less-than-tens-minutes/ |website=techcrunch.com |accessdate=30 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=GitHub just suffered the world’s biggest DDoS attack—and barely blinked |url=https://www.technologyreview.com/f/610405/github-just-suffered-the-worlds-biggest-ddos-attack-it-barely-blinked/ |website=technologyreview.com |accessdate=30 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Howell O'Neill |first1=Patrick |title=GitHub hit with record 1.35-Tbps denial of service attack, more attacks expected |url=https://www.cyberscoop.com/github-denial-of-service-amplification-attack/ |website=cyberscoop.com |accessdate=30 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Thomson |first1=Iain |title=Gits club GitHub code tub with record-breaking 1.35Tbps DDoS drub |url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/01/github_ddos_biggest_ever/ |website=theregister.co.uk |accessdate=30 April 2019}}</ref>
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| 2018 || {{Dts|March 23}} || Survey || Github announces the discovery of mover over 4 million vulnerabilities located in 500,000 plus repositories, culminating scanning started in 2017 for known common vulnerabilities and exposures.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Abel |first1=Robert |title=Github announces 4 million vulnerabilities patched in half a million repositories |url=https://www.scmagazine.com/home/network-security/github-announces-4-million-vulnerabilities-patched-in-half-a-million-repositories/ |website=scmagazine.com |accessdate=30 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Abel |first1=Robert |title=Github patches 4 million vulnerabilities in half a million repositories |url=https://www.crn.com.au/news/github-patches-4-million-vulnerabilities-in-half-a-million-repositories-487777 |website=crn.com.au |accessdate=30 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Tung |first1=Liam |title=GitHub: Our dependency scan has found four million security flaws in public repos |url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/github-our-dependency-scan-has-found-four-million-security-bugs-in-public-repos/ |website=zdnet.com |accessdate=30 April 2019}}</ref>
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| 2018 || {{Dts|April 19}} || Product || GitHub launches GitHub Learning Lab, an app aimed at giving beginners a learning experience they can actively participate in, without leaving GitHub.<ref>{{cite web |last1=SAWERS |first1=PAUL |title=GitHub launches bot-powered learning lab for budding developers |url=https://venturebeat.com/2018/04/19/github-launches-bot-powered-learning-lab-for-budding-developers/ |website=venturebeat.com |accessdate=30 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Vaughan-Nichols |first1=Steven J. |title=Learn to use GitHub with GitHub Learning Lab |url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/learn-to-use-github-with-github-learning-lab/ |website=zdnet.com |accessdate=30 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=GitHub Learning Labs Now Open For Newbies |url=https://www.i-programmer.info/news/150-training-a-education/11731-github-learning-labs-now-open-for-newbies.html |website=i-programmer.info |accessdate=30 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Schafer |first1=Ian C. |title=GitHub launches learning and training lab for developers |url=https://sdtimes.com/github/github-launches-developer-learning-and-training-lab/ |website=sdtimes.com |accessdate=30 April 2019}}</ref>
