GitHub also offers and more strongly promotes alternatives like using a code-generating authentication app, mobile push message-based authentication, or a hardware authentication token.

The enforced token-based authentication for authenticating Git operations increases GitHub accounts' resilience against takeover attempts by preventing attackers from using stolen credentials or ...

Frustrated by GitHub's 'support for password authentication was removed' error? Here's how to fix it by creating a personal access token in GitHub.

Salesforce said that, once notified by GitHub last Wednesday, it disabled the compromised OAuth tokens and the account that they came from.

GitHub revealed today that an attacker is using stolen OAuth user tokens (issued to Heroku and Travis-CI) to download data from private repositories.

The London-based cybersecurity company said it discovered a Mercedes employee’s authentication token in a public GitHub repository during a routine internet scan in January.