Ars Technica

Developers can’t seem to stop exposing credentials in publicly accessible code

Despite more than a decade of reminding, prodding, and downright nagging, a surprising number of developers still can’t bring themselves to keep their code free of credentials that provide the keys to ...
Pen Test Partners

Compromising a multi-cloud environment from a single exposed secret

TL;DR Introduction In practice, it is still hard to keep secrets safe in the cloud. All major cloud service providers have ...
CSOonline

HasMySecretLeaked finds exposed secrets in the GitHub repository

Exposing hard-coded credentials and sensitive secrets through public code repositories has been a major security risk for organizations for years, with over 10 million new instances of credential ...
Dark Reading

Source Code Leaks: The Real Problem Nobody Is Paying Attention To

At 10:30 p.m. PST on Oct. 6, Twitch released the following statement on its corporate blog: "We have learned that some data was exposed to the internet due to an ...
Business Wire

Checkmarx Expands Software Supply Chain Security with Advanced Secrets Detection and Repository Health

PARAMUS, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--With the vast majority of development teams using open source software and employing agile development, Checkmarx, the industry leader in cloud-native application ...
CSOonline

GitHub Actions attack renders even security-aware orgs vulnerable

Many open-source repositories contain privileged GitHub Actions workflows that execute untrusted code and can be triggered by attackers to expose credentials and access tokens, as MITRE and Splunk ...