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 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, ...

Developers accidentally leaked 12.8 million secrets on public GitHub repositories in 2023, a 28% increase on the previous year, according to a new report from GitGuardian. The security vendor claimed ...

Security researchers are warning that data exposed to the internet, even for a moment, can linger in online generative AI chatbots like Microsoft Copilot long after the data is made private. Thousands ...

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 ...

Facepalm: GitHub serves as a colossal hub for software development, hosting nearly half a billion code projects created by hundreds of millions of developers worldwide. Given its extensive reach and ...