About GitHub Founded in 2008, GitHub has grown to become one of the largest developer communities in the world. Today, the site boasts more than 11 million users working on almost 27 million projects. To help ensure the security of all these projects, GitHub announced support for two-factor authentication with U2F-certified YubiKeys in October 2015.. The need for 2FA security to defend against phishing attacks “Security is, without a doubt, the most important thing we do at GitHub. Our entire job is to ensure the privacy and confidentiality of the code that our users entrust us with,” said Shawn Davenport, Vice President of Security at GitHub. The company, which hosts Universal Two Factor (U2F) open-source libraries as part of the GitHub repositories, adopted the U2F two factor st

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