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.

The Security Alerts feature is one of GitHub's most useful services. It works by (GitHub) scanning the dependency tree (generated by the Dependency Graph feature) for a user's project.

Breaking that down to daily numbers, GitHub finds more than 4,500 potential secrets leaked in public repositories. Now, GitHub will empower open-source developers with these alerts too, and for free.

GitHub has added support for securing SSH Git operations using FIDO2 security keys for added protection from account takeover attempts. Researchers at North Carolina State University (NCSU) found ...

Essentially, this means that JFrog Advanced Security and JFrog Curation, its service for tracking which open source packages are being used by developers, is now integrated directly with GitHub ...

GitHub's goal is to use Advanced Security as both a warning system for developers and a built-in framework for bug hunters to find and report additional issues.

GitHub has updated its security alerts feature this week to support Python projects, after previously supporting JavaScript and Ruby. The feature, which launched last November, works by analyzing ...