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GitHub Game Off II

We ran our very first game jam last year and had so much fun, we decided to throw another one! The Challenge You have the entire month of November to…

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Two-factor Authentication

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…

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OAuth Improvements

We have a couple of great new features and improvements to the OAuth flow to announce! First off, application developers can now add full text descriptions and custom images to…

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Content Security Policy

We’ve started rolling out a new security feature called “Content Security Policy” or CSP. As a user, it will better protect your account against XSS attacks. But, be aware, it…

Today’s Email Incident

Earlier today a routine system email was incorrectly sent to many of our GitHub Enterprise customers. In these errant emails, customer email addresses were included in the To: field, making…

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Secrets in the code

Programming often involves keeping a bunch of secrets around. You’ve got account passwords, OAuth tokens, SSL and SSH private keys. The best way to keep a secret is, well, to…

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Three Million Users

Monday night, on the very first day of our all-hands winter summit this week, the three millionth person signed up for a GitHub account. That’s three million developers building software…

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The Octoverse in 2012

I am continually blown away by the staggering amount of work happening on GitHub. Every day, our users commit code, open and close issues, and make plans for their software…

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New Status Site

We just launched a new status.github.com. Downtime is important Even if you’re shooting for five nines — 99.999% uptime — you’re still going to have to account for five minutes…

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GitHub Game Off

Here at GitHub, we’re no strangers to hosting or sponsoring hackathons. With the growing number of games and game development resources on GitHub, we thought it was about time to…

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