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The GitHub Services Engineers have released the Advanced Security Enforcer GitHub Action to enable organizations to utilize code scanning in a consistent and automated way.

In this post, I’ll use three bugs that I reported to Qualcomm in the NPU (neural processing unit) driver to gain arbitrary kernel code execution as root user and disable SELinux from the untrusted app sandbox in an Android phone.

To celebrate this most recent release, here’s GitHub’s look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time.

What an incredible month it’s been for GitHub and our communities. Whilst we’ve been busy with GitHub Universe, our communities have been busy coding. It’s been a successful year for…

During Universe, we received a number of security questions ranging from our strategy to our advisories. Here’s what we’ve got planned!

You can now export your Advanced Security license data to review usage across your business. The CSV data can be downloaded at both enterprise and organization level, and contains: the…

Here are a few ways our teams use GitHub Discussions internally to build community, simplify workflows, and get key insights into our work.

In October, we experienced one incident resulting in significant impact and degraded state of availability for the GitHub Codespaces service.

GitHub Codespaces allows teams and organizations to spin-up developer environments directly from a browser or through Visual Studio Code, without the hassle of setting up a brand new environment tailored…

This post is a technical analysis of a recently disclosed Chrome vulnerability in the garbage collector of v8 (CVE-2021-37975) that was believed to be exploited in the wild. This vulnerability was reported by an anonymous researcher and was patched on September 30, 2021 in Chrome version 94.0.4606.71. I’ll cover the root cause analysis of the bug, as well as detailed exploitation.

The Northern Hemisphere has hit fall, and the southern is starting to warm into summer. September has been a busy time for our community. Maintainers have been getting their repositories…

If you think about it, 13kB isn’t really a lot. The image above is 81kB. This page weighs over 3MB (waaay more if you include the videos). That’s why it’s…

GitHub Releases has a new look and updated tools to make it easier for open source communities to create and share high-quality releases with auto-generated release notes.

This post is a technical analysis of a recently disclosed Chrome JIT vulnerability (CVE-2021-30632) that was believed to be exploited in the wild. This vulnerability was reported by an anonymous researcher and was patched on September 13, 2021 in Chrome version 93.0.4577.82. I’ll cover the root cause analysis of the bug, as well as detailed exploitation.

In 2019, to meet GitHub’s growth and availability challenges, we set a plan in motion to improve our tooling and ability to partition relational databases.

During an audit of Apache Dubbo v2.7.8 source code, I found multiple vulnerabilities enabling attackers to compromise and run arbitrary system commands on both Dubbo consumers and providers. In this blog post I detailed how I leveraged CodeQL as an audit oracle to help me find these issues.

If you’re a GitHub Enterprise Cloud customer, you can now set up a stream of audit log and Git events to Splunk or an Azure Event Hub.

You can now filter workflow runs by the date of creation by using the created filter. For example: created:<2021-08-31. This is also available in the API

In August, we experienced two distinct incidents resulting in significant impact and degraded state of availability for Git operations, API requests, webhooks, issues, pull requests, GitHub Pages, GitHub Packages, and GitHub Actions services.

GitHub Discussions is now out of beta, with features that include labels, Discussions GraphQL API and webhooks, and mobile functionality.

It’s been a busy time of the year for our Hubbers (GitHub employees). We’ve been shipping products, getting ready for launches, and taking some much needed time off for the…