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Code scanning can now be enabled on repositories even if they don’t contain any code written in the languages currently supported by CodeQL. Default setup will automatically trigger the first…

CodeQL 2.16.1 is now available to users of GitHub code scanning on github.com, and all new functionality will also be included in GHES 3.13. Users of GHES 3.12 or older…

Consider deploying the GitHub Action: Evergreen so that you know each of your repositories are leveraging active dependency management with Dependabot.

Celebrate the first year of GitHub Fund, our first investments, and a brief look of where we’re going.

If you use devcontainer.json files to define your development containers, you will now be able to use Dependabot version updates to keep your Features up-to-date. Once configured in dependabot.yml, Dependabot…

CodeQL 2.16.0 is now available to users of GitHub code scanning on github.com, and all new functionality will also be included in GHES 3.13. Users of GHES 3.12 or older…

GitHub received a bug bounty report of a vulnerability that allowed access to the environment variables of a production container. We have patched GitHub.com and rotated all affected credentials. If you have hardcoded or cached a public key owned by GitHub, read on to ensure your systems continue working with the new keys.

On December 13, 2023, we released CodeQL Action v3, which runs on the Node.js 20 runtime. CodeQL Action v2 will be deprecated at the same time as GHES 3.11, which…

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The GitHub Security Lab teamed up with Ekoparty once again to create some challenges for its yearly Capture the Flag competition!

Developers care about security, but poorly integrated tools and other factors can cause frustration. Here are five best practices to reduce friction.

All GitHub Copilot users can now enjoy natural language-powered coding with Copilot Chat at no additional cost.

As the year winds down, we’re highlighting some of the incredible work from GitHub’s engineers, product teams, and security researchers.

GitHub secret scanning protects users by searching repositories for known types of secrets such as tokens and private keys. By identifying and flagging these secrets, our scans help prevent data…

Use CodeQL threat model settings for Java (beta) to adapt CodeQL’s code scanning analysis to detect the most relevant security vulnerabilities in your code. No two codebases are the same…

Read a round-up of the exciting, new innovation coming from GitHub Enterprise.

Hacktoberfest has wrapped up, GitHub Universe has come to a close, and our community has been super hard at work. All the while people enjoyed turkey over Thanksgiving in the…

Learn about how we run a scalable vulnerability management program built on top of GitHub.

In the secret scanning list view, you can now apply a filter to display alerts that are the result of having bypassed push protection. This filter can be applied at…

This blog post describes two linked vulnerabilities found in Frigate, an AI-powered security camera manager, that could have enabled an attacker to silently gain remote code execution.

CodeQL 2.15.4 is rolling out to users of GitHub code scanning on github.com this week, and all new functionality will also be included in GHES 3.12. Users of GHES 3.11…