{"id":2614,"date":"2025-04-03T16:41:06","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T16:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/?p=2614"},"modified":"2025-04-03T16:41:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T16:41:06","slug":"github-upgrades-tooling-to-help-developers-stop-leaking-secrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/?p=2614","title":{"rendered":"GitHub upgrades tooling to help developers stop leaking secrets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"grid grid--cols-10@md grid--cols-8@lg article-column\">\n<div class=\"col-12 col-10@md col-6@lg col-start-3@lg\">\n<div class=\"article-column__content\">\n<div class=\"container\"><\/div>\n<p>Over 39 million API keys, credentials, and other secrets leaked onto GitHub\u2019s platform last year, but an update to its scanning tool could help stop that.<\/p>\n<p>The widely used cloud-based version-control platform automatically blocks \u2018several secrets every minute\u2019 from going into production, but secrets leaks remain a major challenge for users of the service.<\/p>\n<p>While secrets are often exposed accidentally, many breaches also come from well-meaning developers who intentionally share them without realizing the risks, GitHub said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/github.blog\/security\/application-security\/next-evolution-github-advanced-security\/\">blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 39 million API keys, credentials, and other secrets leaked onto GitHub\u2019s platform last year, but an update to its scanning tool could help stop that. The widely used cloud-based version-control platform automatically blocks \u2018several secrets every minute\u2019 from going into production, but secrets leaks remain a major challenge for users of the service. While [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}