TheServerSide

Create a GitHub Personal Access Token example

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. If you ask me, GitHub’s removal of support for password authentication on August 13, 2021 was a ...
TheServerSide

How to use GitHub Actions secrets to hide your tokens and passwords example

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 ...
Bleeping Computer

GitHub tightens npm security with mandatory 2FA, access tokens

GitHub is introducing a set of defenses against supply-chain attacks on the platform that led to multiple large-scale incidents recently. The attacks led to the compromise of thousands of accounts and ...
CSOonline

Major GitHub repos leak access tokens putting code and clouds at risk

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 ...
TechCrunch

How a mistakenly published password exposed Mercedes-Benz source code

Mercedes-Benz accidentally exposed a trove of internal data after leaving a private key online that gave “unrestricted access” to the company’s source code, according to the security research firm ...