Microsoft's GitHub platform isn't exactly known for activism. But in China, the code-sharing platform is now home to an online protest movement demanding better working conditions at the country's ...

GitHub has enabled push protection by default for all public repositories to prevent accidental exposure of secrets such as access tokens and API keys when pushing new code.

Last year, GitHub introduced push protection for public repositories as a further security component. It is designed to prevent sensitive information such as passwords or API keys from being ...

Microsoft, Mozilla, and Google are part of the GitHub Security Lab to protect open source code. CodeQL will be open-sourced to power the lab.

The company's announcement last week featured the protection for the Microsoft-owned GitHub platform as just one small part of a bevy of new features and functionalities, but it's even more ...

GitHub is partnering with Stanford University on a new initiative designed to protect the legal rights of open source developers. Through its $1 million Developer Defense Fund, GitHub is creating ...

Coding platform Github released two-factor authentication today, one of the many tech companies putting that extra step between you and hackers who want access to your account. Github is a place ...

A team of academics has created a Chrome extension that can block side-channel attacks that use JavaScript code to leak data from a computer's RAM or CPU. The extension's name is Chrome Zero and ...

The EU will have a final vote on its controversial Copyright Reform and March 26. If it's passed, it could risk open source projects.