Developers treat GitHub Gists as a "paste everything" service, accidentally exposing secrets like API keys and tokens. BYOS ...

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 has enabled push protection by default for all public repositories to prevent accidental exposure of secrets such as access tokens and API keys when pushing new code. Today's announcement comes ...

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 ...

An exhaustive scan shows hundreds of thousands of websites potentially exposing sensitive data such as database passwords, API keys and so on. A scan of more than 230 million web domains worldwide has ...

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 ...

Since its inception, the Git DVCS tool's default branch name was set to master. Every Git repository had a master branch unless a developer took explicit steps to remove it, which was rarely ever done ...

Google has open-sourced today a project for sandboxing C and C++ libraries running on Linux systems. The project's name is the Sandboxed API, a tool that Google has been using internally for its data ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Git version control enables software development engineers to save versions of code, access ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. A Git repository is of very little use if it resides entirely on your remote GitHub or GitLab ...