GitHub today announced that it’s bolstering its security solutions by offering GitHub Advanced Security and Private Instances features. Along with this the company also unveiled Codespaces — cloud-based development environment — and Discussions feature. Last year, GitHub acquired semantic code-scanning and security company Semmel. Now, the code-hosting company is integrating the latter’s features to provide in-built code-scanning. The company says that code-scanning is a native experience, and it scans every ‘Git Push’ for potential exploits. It uses CodeQL, a tool to query the codebase for potential bugs, to find vulnerabilities in your project. This feature is free for any open-source project.…

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