GitHub has announced today that account passwords will no longer be accepted for authenticating Git operations starting tomorrow. This change was first announced last year, in July, when GitHub said ...

GitHub now officially requires token-based authentication for its command line interface, third-party apps, and services that access Git repositories hosted on the platform. I've been writing about ...

Hackers are breaching GitHub accounts and inserting malicious code disguised as Dependabot contributions to steal authentication secrets and passwords from developers. The campaign unfolded in July ...

Developers from hundreds of companies have included access tokens for their Slack accounts in public projects on GitHub, putting their teams’ internal chats and other data at risk. Slack has become ...

GitHub shared the timeline of breaches in April 2022, this timeline encompasses the information related to when a threat actor gained access and stole private repositories belonging to dozens of ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. One of the ongoing challenges DevOps professionals face when developing continuous integration ...

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 ...

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