GitHub was forced to change its RSA SSH key today, after the private key was briefly exposed in a public GitHub repository. That's why users who connected today to GitHub.com via SSH got a message ...

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 ...

Hanley, who is also GitHub's SVP of Engineering, said that they quickly contained the exposure and investigated the root cause of the issue. GitHub's RSA SSH Private Key Accidentally Leaked to Public!

At present, users can now use a password, personal access token (PAT), or an SSH key to access Git -- but the company intends to remove support for passwords later this year.

GitHub has added support for securing SSH Git operations using FIDO2 security keys for added protection from account takeover attempts.

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 ...