Over 39 million API keys, credentials, and other secrets leaked onto GitHub’s platform last year, but an update to its scanning tool could help stop that. The widely used cloud-based version ...

GitHub announced today the introduction of passwordless authentication support in public beta, allowing users who opt-in to upgrade from security keys to passkeys.

GitHub has announced a slew of supply chain security upgrades for modules based on the Go programming language. On July 22, GitHub staff product manager William Bartholomew said in a blog post ...

GitHub says Copilot for Business can detect several types of security issues. It’s capable of spotting code that may facilitate SQL injections, a type of common cyberattack involving malicious ...

For those using security keys, they will see "upgrade" instead, if the keys are compatible. GitHub noted, ... These fake GitHub "security alerts" could actually let hackers hijack your account.

Of course, this shouldn’t be a surprise to GitHub users given that the mandatory security upgrade was announced in mid-2022, with several reminders over the following 18 months. You may like ...

Microsoft, Mozilla, and Google are part of the GitHub Security Lab to protect open source code. ... On day one, GitHub launched a range of upgrades and an iOS mobile app.

While GitHub is in a position to make a major impact on how the open source community handles security, Chris Wysopal, chief technology officer of the software auditing firm Veracode, points out ...

GitHub security team has identified several high-severity vulnerabilities in npm packages, ... or 6.1.10, and upgrade @npmcli/arborist version 2.8.2 to patch the vulnerabilities. For npm CLI, ...

GitHub says Security Lab founding members have found, reported, and helped fix more than 100 security flaws already. Other organizations, as well as individual security researchers, can also join.