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 ...

GitHub announced updates to its Advanced Security platform after it detected over 39 million leaked secrets in repositories during 2024, including API keys and credentials, exposing users and ...

The leaked token, accidentally embedded by the company’s employee in a public repository, might have provided an attacker with unrestricted access to the company’s GitHub Enterprise server. Thus, ...

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 ...

Private and deleted GitHub repositories are not as secure as users might assume. Data from deleted forks, deleted repositories, and private repositories can still be accessed, often indefinitely. This ...

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 ...

Google is bringing its AI coding agent Jules deeper into developer workflows with a new command-line interface and public API ...

GitHub users are being targeted with malicious copies of legitimate repositories, a cybersecurity researcher recently uncovered. Preying on developers who are either short on time, reckless, or just ...

An unknown threat actor is harvesting data from private code repositories, with the help of stolen OAuth user tokens issued to Heroku and Travic-CI. As reported by GitHub, by last Tuesday, the threat ...