GitHub previews AI-powered code scanning autofix

GitHub previews AI-powered code scanning autofix

GitHub is previewing code scanning autofix, a feature that combines its GitHub Copilot AI assistant with its CodeQL code scanner to provide suggested fixes to discovered vulnerabilities. Code scanning autofix is available in a public beta to GitHub Advanced Security...
GitHub previews AI-powered code scanning autofix

C++ creator rebuts White House warning

C++ creator Bjarne Stroustrup has defended the widely used programming language in response to a Biden administration report that calls on developers to use memory-safe languages and avoid using vulnerable ones such as C++ and C.In a March 15 response to an inquiry...
GitHub previews AI-powered code scanning autofix

Open source is not insecure

Frank Crane wasn’t talking about open source when he famously said, “You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don’t trust enough.”But that’s a great way to summarize today’s gap between how open source is actually being consumed,...
GitHub previews AI-powered code scanning autofix

Feds seek attestation on secure software

The US federal government has released a software attestation form intended to ensure that software producers partnering with the government leverage minimum secure development techniques and tool sets.The form was announced March 11 by the Department of Homeland...