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GitHub will require all users who contribute code on GitHub.com to enable one or more forms of two-factor authentication (2FA) by the end of 2023.

The ZX Spectrum, one of the best-selling microcomputers of all time, celebrates its 40 years anniversary today. Read more about how the community is still active – creating new content, archiving old content, and hacking on all sorts of hardware.

On April 12, GitHub Security began an investigation that uncovered evidence that an attacker abused stolen OAuth user tokens issued to two third-party OAuth integrators, Heroku and Travis-CI, to download data from dozens of organizations, including npm. Read on to learn more about the impact to GitHub, npm, and our users.

In March, we experienced several incidents resulting in significant impact to multiple GitHub services.

Over the past few weeks, we have experienced multiple incidents due to the health of our database. We wanted to share what we know about these incidents while our team continues to address them.

In February, we experienced one incident resulting in significant impact to multiple GitHub services.

As the global response to the tragedies in Ukraine and other impacted regions continues to evolve, I wanted to share with our community an expansion of the message that I shared earlier this week with our Hubbers.

Over the past year, the GitHub Stars have made a tremendous impact in the community with their influence, inspiring and building communities and creating content to help everyone.

In January, we experienced no incidents resulting in service downtime to our core services.

GitHub continues to improve account security and developer experience with a new 2FA mechanism in GitHub Mobile on iOS and Android.

With the successful liftoff of the James Webb Space Telescope, we ask our very own Arfon Smith about the history of open source and space science.

In December, we experienced no incidents resulting in service downtime to our core services.

As the year winds down, we’re highlighting some of the incredible work from GitHub’s engineers, product teams, and security researchers.

On Thursday, December 9, 2021, GitHub was made aware of a vulnerability in the Log4j logging framework, CVE-2021-44228.

In November, we experienced one incident resulting in significant impact and degraded state of availability for multiple services.