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 ...

After scanning all 5.6 million public repositories on GitLab Cloud, a security engineer discovered more than 17,000 exposed ...

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 ...

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 ...

GitHub is the host with the most for open-source projects and programmers who want to share and collaborate on code. Here’s why. GitHub is at heart a Git repository hosting service, i.e. a cloud-based ...

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 ...

The Git Project has disclosed the existence of a severe vulnerability which can lead to the execution of arbitrary code. The vulnerability, CVE-2018-17456, was disclosed on Friday. The ...