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Microsoft-owned GitHub announced on Wednesday that it has acquired code analysis platform provider Semmle and the company is now a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) Numbering Authority. read more

GitHub is the latest company to support WebAuthn, a new standard that makes logging into online services using a browser more secure.

GitHub has started supporting the Web Authentication (WebAuthn) web standard, allowing users to use security keys for two-factor authentication with a wide variety of browsers and devices. New...

Standard enables more security key options with passwordless a future possibility GitHub has announced support for the Web Authentication (WebAuthn) security standard.…

Microsoft-owned GitHub on Monday announced that its token scanning service will also check commits for Atlassian, Dropbox, Discord, Proctorio and Pulumi tokens that have been accidentally shared. read more

The class action charges Capital One and GitHub, charging it with being "friendly" (at least) toward hacking and for the hackers' posts.

Data loss is lawyers' gain Code repository GitHub and credit card flinger Capital One are facing down a potential class action suit in the US accusing them of negligence over the loss of 106...

You might also be slurping Chinese malware Palo Alto Networks has spotted a new cryptomining malware technique that not only wipes out any other miners present on the target machine but uses...

'Defending democracy' initiative to resist nation-state attacks Microsoft has demonstrated its ElectionGuard electronic vote system at the Aspen Security Forum under way in Colorado and warned...

Vulnerability experts Michiel Prins and Greg Ose discuss the 15 most common vulnerability types.