GitHub Advanced Security will help automatically spot potential security problems in the world's biggest open source platform.

Millions of users of GitHub, the premier online platform for sharing open-source software, rely on stars to establish their ...

GitHub shared plans at a White House summit in January to up its game in the open-source software security space. It came after security vulnerabilities such as the Log4Shell flaw raised concerns.

Other ways GitHub is helping protect open-source software is through automated security updates and token scanning. “Securing the world’s open source software is a daunting task.

Recent cybersecurity threats such as Log4Shell have sparked interest in public-private partnerships to secure open-source software.

Programmer and lawyer Matthew Butterick has sued Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI, alleging that GitHub's Copilot violates the terms of open-source licenses and infringes the rights of code authors.

Now, pretty much everyone hosts their open source projects on GitHub, including Google, Facebook, Twitter, and even Microsoft---once the bete noire of open source software.

Microsoft-owned GitHub, the world's largest platform for open-source software, has found that 17% of all vulnerabilities in software were planted for malicious purposes.

Software Freedom Conservancy, a not-for-profit organization that provides support and legal services for open source software projects, has called on the open source community to ditch GitHub ...

A large GitHub survey of open-source projects has found open-source software development is almost completely dominated by men, and that most programmers neglect to write documentation. While ...

How did the Open Source community react to GitHub’s Open Source Guides, in your view? We had high hopes for the guides, and the initial response has exceeded our expectations.