Making secret scanning more trustworthy: Reducing false positives at scale
2026-06-18T19:23:28Z•8d433ba6b6ccc66dbf1609ac94ff1cdcb617b6c328cd9798aad75d4c0a191761
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What happened
Collection of GitHub Security Blog updates (Mar–Jun 2026) covering: improvements to secret scanning using context-aware LLM reasoning to reduce false positives; an urgent signing-key rotation for GitHub Enterprise Server customers following an internal-repository investigation; updates to the bug bounty program emphasizing higher-quality reports and clearer shared-responsibility boundaries; rapid detection and remediation of a critical remote code execution vulnerability in the git-push pipeline (fixed within two hours, no confirmed exploitation); new tools and programs — free Code Security R
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