GitHub has added support for securing SSH Git operations using FIDO2 security keys for added protection from account takeover attempts. Researchers at North Carolina State University (NCSU) found ...

When you add a security key to SSH operations, you can use these devices to protect you and your account from accidental exposure, account hijacking, or malware, GitHub security engineer Kevin ...

A developer only needs two steps to get started with Git. First, create a new local repository with the git init command. Second, issue the git clone command to locally copy the contents of a remotely ...

If one has an SSH key registered with the account, one can use SSH authentication to recover the account in cases where all of the other authentication methods have become unavailable.

-Protocols For URLs with a "git://" scheme a different network transport (by default using tcp port 9418) is used. URLs with no scheme use ssh.

Earlier this year, researcher Ben Cox collected the public SSH (Secure Shell) keys of users with access to GitHub-hosted repositories by using one of the platform’s features.