GitHub says Security Lab founding members have found, reported, and helped fix more than 100 security flaws already. Other organizations, as well as individual security researchers, can also join.

Over 99% of security incidents on GitHub stem from developer mistakes, a product head told Insider. GitHub is partnering with firms such as Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud to secure open source.

In a blog post in March, GitHub said that within a month of its launch last year, developers acted on security alerts and removed 450,000 vulnerabilities from their projects.

GitHub Advanced Security gains some AI features, and GitHub Copilot now includes a chatbot option. Github Copilot Enterprise is expected in February 2024.

GitHub announced updates to its Advanced Security platform after it detected over 39 million leaked secrets in repositories during 2024, including API keys and credentials, exposing users and ...

Currently, GitHub Advanced Security is only available to purchase as an add-on for GitHub Enterprise customers, which is the company’s highest tier plan that starts at $21/month/user.

The researcher updated his thread to say that at least 8,000 GitHub repositories were targeted. However, a BleepingComputer report puts the number of targets at 12,000.

Now, code repository GitHub is rolling out new tools for its GitHub Advanced Security suite that will make it easier to root out vulnerabilities in the open source projects managed on its platform.

The code-sharing site will tell users what projects depend on other projects as well as offer security alerts Topics Spotlight: New Thinking about Cloud Computing ...