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 ...
GitHub users accidentally exposed 12.8 million authentication and sensitive secrets in over 3 million public repositories during 2023, with the vast majority remaining valid after five days. This is ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...