Private vulnerability reporting now generally available
Open source maintainers and security researchers embrace a new best practice to report and fix vulnerabilities.
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Security
Introducing npm package provenance
How to verifiably link npm packages to their source repository and build instructions.
Multi-repository enablement: effortlessly scale code scanning across your repositories
We’ve gotten great feedback on default setup, a simple way to set up code scanning on your repository. Now, you have the ability to use default setup across your organization's repositories, in just one click.
Generative AI-enabled compliance for software development
Explore how generative AI may soon help enable optimizing some of the foundational components of compliance.
Pwning Pixel 6 with a leftover patch
In this post, I’ll look at a security-related change in version r40p0 of the Arm Mali driver that was AWOL in the January update of the Pixel bulletin, where other patches from r40p0 was applied, and how these two lines of changes can be exploited to gain arbitrary kernel code execution and root from a malicious app. This highlights how treacherous it can be when backporting security changes.
Level up monitoring and reporting for your enterprise
A high-quality audit log is an essential tool for enterprises to ensure compliance, maintain security, investigate issues, and promote accountability.
CodeQL zero to hero part 1: the fundamentals of static analysis for vulnerability research
Learn more about static analysis and how to use it for security research! In this blog post series, we will take a closer look at static analysis concepts, present GitHub’s static analysis tool CodeQL, and teach you how to leverage static analysis for security research by writing custom CodeQL queries.
Improvements to CodeQL’s data flow library for C++
These changes will improve the experience for custom query authors and enable better precision in some of our standard queries. Learn how to enable them for your custom queries.
Introducing self-service SBOMs
Developers and compliance teams get a new SBOM generation tool for cloud repositories.
We updated our RSA SSH host key
At approximately 05:00 UTC on March 24, out of an abundance of caution, we replaced our RSA SSH host key used to secure Git operations for GitHub.com.
Build a secure code mindset with the GitHub Secure Code Game
Writing secure code is as much of an art as writing functional code, and it is the only way to write quality code. Learn how our Secure Code Game can provide you with hands-on training to spot and fix security issues in your code so that you can build a secure code mindset.
Introducing GitHub vulnerability management integrations for security professionals
Learn about using GitHub Advanced Security alerts with vulnerability management tools. Check out the integrations and learn about how to get started.
Raising the bar for software security: GitHub 2FA begins March 13
On March 13, we will officially begin rolling out our initiative to require all developers who contribute code on GitHub.com to enable one or more forms of two-factor authentication (2FA) by the end of 2023. Read on to learn about what the process entails and how you can help secure the software supply chain with 2FA.
Multi-repository variant analysis: a powerful new way to perform security research across GitHub
Multi-repository variant analysis lets you scale security research across thousands of repositories, giving you a powerful tool to find and respond to newly discovered vulnerabilities.
Application security orchestration with GitHub Advanced Security
Learn how teams can leverage the power of GitHub Advanced Security’s code scanning and GitHub Actions to integrate the right security testing tools at the right time.
GitHub Security Lab audited DataHub: Here’s what they found
The GitHub Security Lab audited DataHub, an open source metadata platform, and discovered several vulnerabilities in the platform's authentication and authorization modules. These vulnerabilities could have enabled an attacker to bypass authentication and gain access to sensitive data stored on the platform.