GitHub rotated keys potentially exposed by a vulnerability patched in December that could let attackers access credentials within production containers via environment variables. This unsafe ...

GitHub is now automatically blocking the leak of sensitive information like API keys and access tokens for all public code repositories. Today's announcement comes after the company introduced push ...

Question: How do I keep my API keys from becoming part of someone else's GitHub search? Answer: Storing API keys directly in your code is generally not recommended due to the potential security risks.

Millions of secrets and authentication keys were leaked on GitHub in 2023, with the majority of developers not caring to revoke them even after being notified of the mishap, new research has claimed.

Philippe Caturegli, “chief hacking officer” at the security consultancy Seralys, was the first to publicize the leak of credentials for an x.ai application programming interface (API) exposed in the ...

Attackers are actively harvesting exposed Amazon Web Services (AWS) identity and access management (IAM) credentials in public GitHub repositories to create AWS Elastic Compute (EC2) instances for ...