InfoWorld

GitHub Action Secrets aren’t secret anymore: exposed PATs now a direct path into cloud environments

Wiz has found threat actors exploiting GitHub tokens, giving them access to GitHub Action Secrets and, ultimately, cloud ...
TheServerSide

Fix GitHub's 'support for password authentication was removed' error

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Support for password authentication was removed on August 13 ...
CSOonline

Python GitHub token leak shows binary files can burn developers too

Scrubbing tokens from source code is not enough, as shown by the publishing of a Python Software Foundation access token with administrator privileges to a container image on Docker Hub. A personal ...
Bleeping Computer

GitHub Action hack likely led to another in cascading supply chain attack

The tj-actions developers cannot pinpoint exactly how the attackers compromised a GitHub personal access token (PAT) used by a bot to perform malicious code changes. Today, Wiz researchers think they ...

Home Depot exposed access to internal systems for a year, says researcher

A security researcher tried to alert Home Depot to the security lapse exposing its back-end GitHub source code repos and ...
CSOonline

Major GitHub repos leak access tokens putting code and clouds at risk

Build artifacts generated by GitHub Actions often contain access tokens that can be abused by attackers to push malicious code into projects or compromise cloud infrastructure. An analysis of build ...
TheServerSide

Was GitHub's password authentication removal an overstep?

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. I can’t help but think GitHub went a little too far with its removal of password based ...