GitHub has recently extended its CodeQL-based code scanner by adding the possibility to specify the desired threat model. The new feature is available in beta for the Java language.

GitHub’s Product Security Engineering team secures the code behind GitHub by developing tools like CodeQL to detect and fix vulnerabilities at scale. They’ve shared insights into their ...

GitHub has introduced a new option to set up code scanning for a repository known as "default setup," designed to help developers configure it automatically with just a few clicks. While the CodeQL ...

Fourteen companies unite get together to search, find, and fix security flaws in GitHub-hosted open source projects.

Image Credits: GitHub In the background, this new feature uses the CodeQL engine, GitHub’s semantic analysis engine to find vulnerabilities in code, even before it has been executed.

CodeQL, a semantic code analysis engine and query tool for finding security vulnerabilities across a codebase, has been made available for free by GitHub for anyone to use in research or to ...

The new GitHub Enterprise Server 3.3 release focuses on security, with a new 'security manager' role leading several changes made in the same of safety.