Open source software has the potential to be very secure. Unlike proprietary code that can only be accessed directly by its own developers, anyone can vet open source projects to spot flaws and bugs.

GitHub announced updates to its Advanced Security platform after it detected over 39 million leaked secrets in repositories during 2024, including API keys and credentials, exposing users and ...

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GitHub has announced on Monday that it expanded its code hosting platform's secrets scanning capabilities for GitHub Advanced Security customers to block secret leaks automatically. Secret scanning is ...

In the light of recent supply chain attacks targeting the NPM ecosystem, GitHub will implement tighter authentication and ...

Earlier this year, software supply chain platform (and binary specialist) JFrog announced a partnership with GitHub that, among other things, allowed developers and the teams that support them to ...

GitHub enforces FIDO 2FA and seven-day token limits after Shai-Hulud npm attack to boost supply chain security.

It’s a bad day for bugs. Earlier today, Sentry announced its AI Autofix feature for debugging production code and now, a few hours later, GitHub is launching the first beta of its code-scanning ...

Since the Dependency Graph feature is intertwined with the Security Alerts (Vulnerability Alerts) feature, this also means GitHub users will also be eligible to receive automatic security alerts for ...

Researchers published a scholarly paper looking into security implications of GitHub Copilot, an advanced AI system now being used for code completion in Visual Studio Code and possibly headed for ...