Making secret scanning more trustworthy: Reducing false positives at scale
2026-06-11T19:23:26Z•cb2a170ebe36b133dfe8159a270649e20c30c101acd6cfd3fb84a1360b8b8679
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What happened
Collection of GitHub Security Blog posts (Mar–Jun 2026) covering product and program updates and incident response: 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 investigation; changes to the bug bounty program to prioritize higher-quality reports and clarify shared responsibility; rapid validation, mitigation, and investigation of a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in the git-push pipeline (no confirmed exploitation); new developer security tools/
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- 2026-06-11T19:23:26Z
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- Yes
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