GitHub will automatically scan for access tokens in public code with its new beta. It's also launching an API for security advisories.

Snyk's platform helps customers patch vulnerabilities in code pulled from open source platforms like GitHub, Bitbucket and GitLab. The company wants to eventually be able to fix those flaws in runtime.

It's been just over a week since the first massive Memcached-fueled denial of service attack. The authors of the new tool is being released "to bring more attention to the flaw."

The attack used the same memcached technique that was used in the 1.35Tbps attack on GitHub less than a week prior.

Both Cloudflare and Akamai predict "many more, potentially larger attacks" in the near future.