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Verified devices

For users without two-factor authentication enabled, GitHub now requires additional verification when you first sign in from an unrecognized device. After providing your username and password, you will be asked to…

Ben Balter
Git ransom campaign incident report—Atlassian Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab

Git ransom campaign incident report—Atlassian Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab

Today, Atlassian Bitbucket, GitHub, and GitLab are issuing a joint blog post in a coordinated effort to help educate and inform users of the three platforms on secure best practices relating to the recent Git ransomware incident. Though there is no evidence Atlassian Bitbucket, GitHub, or GitLab products were compromised in any way, we believe it’s important to help the software development community better understand and collectively take steps to protect against this threat.

John Swanson
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Security Settings Update

We have redesigned the two-factor authentication profile settings to make it easier to keep your account up to date. You will occasionally be prompted with a reminder to confirm your…

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Git LFS 2.4.0 released

Git LFS 2.4.0 released

A new version of Git LFS, the open source Git extension for versioning large files, is now available. Git LFS v2.4.0 comes with a rewrite of the underlying pattern matching…

Taylor Blau