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GitHub adds approval checks for suspicious Actions workflows

GitHub Actions will hold potentially malicious workflows until a collaborator with write access approves them.

GitHub Automatically Holds Suspicious Actions Runs, but Repository Owners Must Approve Them

GitHub now automatically holds suspicious Actions workflows in public repositories, but maintainers must still review ...
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GitHub Copilot app now scans in-flight code for vulnerabilities before commit

GitHub shipped the /security-review slash command to its Copilot desktop app on July 14, making AI-driven pre-commit vulnerability scanning available to every Copilot subscriber — including Free tier ...
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GitHub Actions attack renders even security-aware orgs vulnerable

Many open-source repositories contain privileged GitHub Actions workflows that execute untrusted code and can be triggered by attackers to expose credentials and access tokens, as MITRE and Splunk ...