It’s already been a year since we launched the GitHub Security Bug Bounty, and, thanks to bug reports from researchers across the globe, 73 previously unknown security vulnerabilities in our applications have been identified and

If you’re a Gmail user who gets GitHub notifications via email, you’ll notice that we’ve added subject-line links to issues and pull requests on notification messages. You can use these links to more quickly access

Today we’re adding two-factor authentication to GitHub. When you enable this feature, it adds an additional layer of security to your account. When logging in to GitHub, after providing your username and password, you will

In the ongoing effort to keep our users safe, we recently took inspiration from the Unix sudo command. We wanted to require password confirmation for dangerous actions on GitHub.com, but we didn’t want to force

Both GitHub and Gist offer ways to view “raw” versions of user content. Instead of viewing files in the visual context of the website, the user can see the actual text content as it was