A number of high-profile source-code repositories hosted on GitHub could have been modified using weak SSH authentication keys, a security researcher has warned. The potentially vulnerable ...

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 revoked weak SSH authentication keys generated using a library that incorrectly created duplicate RSA keypairs. GitHub allows you to authenticate to their service without a user name and ...

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 Jones ...

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 ...

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!

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. HTTPS is a popular mechanism for communicating across the Internet, but security minded ...

The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) has issued a warning for what it calls "active attacks" against Linux-based computing infrastructures using compromised SSH keys. The attack appears ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. To start, store a public SSH key on GitHub. This is validated against a locally stored private ...

How to combine SSH key authentication and two-factor authentication on Linux Your email has been sent Jack Wallen shows you how to set up both two-factor authentication and SSH key authentication for ...