A scan of billions of files from 13 percent of all GitHub public repositories over a period of six months has revealed that over 100,000 repos have leaked API tokens and cryptographic keys, with ...

As of August 21, 2024, GitHub has enabled push protection to prevent API key leakage, which could significantly impact this repository. Note As of March 11, 2024, secret scanning and push protection ...

It uses the GitHub search API and implements most of its features with user-friendly cmdlets and parameters. NOTE : The GitHub Search API limits each search to 1,000 results and the number of ...

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 is rolling out support for the free scanning of exposed secrets (such as credentials and auth tokens) to all public repositories on its code hosting platform. Secret scanning is a security ...

GitHub is one of the world's largest software development platforms, with a wide variety of repositories available, from major to niche. However, a large-scale 'repo confusion' campaign has been ...

GitHub allows anyone to access forks and repositories that have been deleted or set to private, and this behavior is by design and not a flaw, open source security firm Truffle Security said in a blog ...

A hacker claims to have stolen over 500GB of data from Microsoft's private GitHub repositories, BleepingComputer has learned. This evening, a hacker going by the name Shiny Hunters contacted ...

GitHub is the host with the most for open-source projects and programmers who want to share and collaborate on code. Here’s why. GitHub is at heart a Git repository hosting service, i.e. a cloud-based ...