Attackers constantly search public code repositories like GitHub for secrets developers might inadvertently leave behind, and any tiny mistake can be exploited. One boring day during the pandemic, ...

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 recently expanded its secrets scanning capabilities to repositories containing PyPI and RubyGems registry secrets. The move helps protect millions of applications built by Ruby and Python ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

GitHub disabled 73 Microsoft repositories on June 5 after a malicious commit landed in an Azure project, in what researchers described as a supply chain attack aimed at developer workstations and AI ...