Security

A behind-the-scenes peek into the machine learning framework powering new code scanning security alerts.

Practical tips on how to apply OWASP Top 10 Proactive Control C4.

A comprehensive guide for vulnerability reporters.

A deep dive into how GitHub adds support for new languages to CodeQL.

Starting today, we are rolling out mandatory 2FA to all maintainers of top-100 npm packages by dependents.

When it comes to secure database access, there’s more to consider than SQL injections. OWASP Top 10 Proactive Control C3 offers guidance.

The GitHub Security Lab’s CodeQL bounty program fuels GitHub Advanced Security with queries written by the open source community.

In this post, I’ll discuss how to apply OWASP Proactive Control C2: Leverage security frameworks and libraries.

Use GitHub’s security features to assess Apache Log4j exposure and, where possible, mitigate this vulnerability within your GitHub repositories.

How to exploit a double-free vulnerability in Ubuntu’s accountsservice (CVE-2021-3939)

GitHub has partnered with the OpenSSF and Project Sigstore to add container image signing to our default “Publish Docker Container” workflow.

GitHub Actions now supports OpenID Connect for secure deployment to different cloud providers via short-lived, auto-rotated tokens.

Recently, the Copyright Office responded to the calls to clarify the scope of protected security research.

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.

The Exiv2 team tightened our security by enabling GitHub’s code scanning feature and adding custom queries tailored to the Exiv2 code base.