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. Image: prima91/Adobe Stock ...

GitHub has announced on Monday that it expanded its code hosting platform's secrets scanning capabilities for GitHub Advanced Security customers to block secret leaks automatically. Secret scanning is ...

A new supply chain attack on GitHub, dubbed 'GhostAction,' has compromised 3,325 secrets, including PyPI, npm, DockerHub, GitHub tokens, Cloudflare, and AWS keys. The attack was discovered by ...

GitHub has announced that its enterprise-focused secret scanning tool for private repositories is now generally available. The Microsoft-owned code-hosting platform first debuted secret scanning for ...

Hard coding credentials and pushing the code to GitHub is a common mistake that can lead to exposing sensitive info like Slack tokens or Amazon keys Every developer worth his or her salt knows better ...

Every developer knows that it’s a bad idea to hardcode security credentials into source code. Yet it happens and when it does, the consequences can be dire. Until now, GitHub only made its secret ...

Simple steps can make the difference between losing your online accounts or maintaining what is now a precious commodity: Your privacy. Read now On April 4, the ...

Home Depot exposed a GitHub token for a year, granting access to critical internal systems Researcher warnings were ignored ...

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 ...

Many enterprises use GitHub Action Secrets to store and protect sensitive information such as credentials, API keys, and tokens used in CI/CD workflows. These private repositories are widely assumed ...