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 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 ...

Approximately 640 NPM packages have been infected with a new variant of the Shai-Hulud self-replicating worm in a fresh wave of attacks.

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 ...

GitHub is the world's biggest software development platform and code repository, and right now it's having some problems. Even though the GitHub site and most web functions are working as intended, ...

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 ...

Ever since they became a standard offering on a free tier, private GitHub repositories have become popular with developers. However, many developers become ...