GitHub's RSA SSH private key was accidentally leaked to the public, as confirmed by the code hosting platform's CEO, Mike Hanley. An engineer from the Israeli company "Commun.it" uses his expertise in ...

GitHub has rotated its private SSH key for GitHub.com after the secret was was accidentally published in a public GitHub repository. The software development and version control service says, the ...

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GitHub has revoked weak SSH authentication keys generated using a library that incorrectly created duplicate RSA keypairs. GitHub allows you to authenticate to their service without a user name and ...

An audit of the SSH keys associated with more than a million GitHub accounts shows that some users have weak, easily factorable keys and many more are using keys that are still vulnerable to the ...

When you add a security key to SSH operations, you can use these devices to protect you and your account from accidental exposure, account hijacking, or malware, GitHub security engineer Kevin Jones ...

Security researchers have uncovered two new malicious packages on the npm open source package manager that utilized GitHub to store stolen Base64-encrypted SSH keys taken from developer systems. These ...

GitHub has revoked an unknown number of cryptographic keys used to access accounts after a developer found they contained a catastrophic weakness that came to light some seven years ago. The keys, ...