Earlier this year, researcher Ben Cox collected the public SSH (Secure Shell) keys of users with access to GitHub-hosted repositories by using one of the platform’s features.

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 ...

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

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 ...

GitHub SSH URL Example HTTPS is a popular mechanism for communicating across the Internet, but security minded organizations tend to prefer SSH. User-generated SSH keys provide a higher level of ...

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!

The key can contain numbers, letters, or symbols like the one above. On remote Unix, Linux, or macOS machines the public key needs to be placed into a file called ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file using a ...