GitHub users accidentally exposed 12.8 million authentication and sensitive secrets in over 3 million public repositories during 2023, with the vast majority remaining valid after five days. This is ...

GitHub has announced that its secret scanning alerts service is now generally available to all public repositories and can be enabled to detect leaked secrets across an entire publishing history.

The open source software development service has made it easier for developers using its public repositories to keep coding secrets and tokens close to the chest. Microsoft’s Git-based open source ...

Research by Wiz shows that industry titans, with combined valuations exceeding $400 billion, have left the equivalent of their front doors propped open. Research found that 65% of the world’s most ...

Over 39 million API keys, credentials, and other secrets leaked onto GitHub’s platform last year, but an update to its scanning tool could help stop that. The widely used cloud-based version-control ...

The GitHub hack shows how one poisoned VS Code extension gave attackers access to 3,800 internal repositories. If you rely on third-party developer tools, this breach is a warning to audit your ...

Build artifacts generated by GitHub Actions often contain access tokens that can be abused by attackers to push malicious code into projects or compromise cloud infrastructure. An analysis of build ...