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We just added more granular permissions so third party applications can specifically request read-only access, read/write access, or full admin access to your public SSH keys. You’re in control As…

Today, we’re excited to announce the launch of education.github.com, a site dedicated to using GitHub at school. Students, teachers, and schools all over the world use GitHub to teach and…

Our users’ trust is something we never take for granted here at GitHub. In order to earn and keep that trust we are always working to improve the security of…

Today we’re making it easier to manage GitHub organizations. Whether your organization is a large private company or a small open source project, these improvements will help keep your teams…

With help from the non-profit, open-source project Amara, we’ve added English closed captions to all of our videos on YouTube. This includes all videos on the main GitHub channel (such…

Last week on Wednesday, January 8th, GitHub experienced an outage of our DNS infrastructure. As a result of this outage, our customers experienced 42 minutes of downtime of services along…

To help kick off the new year, we’re happy to announce that GitHub for Mac now supports CAS authentication with GitHub Enterprise as of version 11.10.328 or later! The sign-in…

Some GitHub user accounts with weak passwords were recently compromised due to a brute force password-guessing attack. I want to take this opportunity to talk about our response to this…

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…

To follow up with our recent two-factor authentication security feature, we are giving users more insight into their active browser sessions. Under Account settings > Security History you will see…

Today’s GitHub for Windows release adds support for GitHub Enterprise. Now you can use all the GitHub for Windows features you know and love with your GitHub Enterprise repositories. Adding…

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…

We’re always looking at ways to improve security. Today’s release of GitHub for Windows (version 1.0.54) improves password handling security through the use of OAuth tokens. Prior to this release…

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…

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…

It’s a fact of life – sometimes repository names change. This can happen in a few different types of scenarios: When you rename a repository. When you rename your user…

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, we’re excited to 🚢 the latest release of GitHub for Mac with support for GitHub Enterprise. You’ll now be able to use all of your favorite Mac features, such…

Beginning today, all GitHub Pages sites are moving to a new, dedicated domain: github.io. This is a security measure aimed at removing potential vectors for cross domain attacks targeting the…

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…

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…