Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

CISA Lauded for Fast Response, Transparency and Detailing Security RecommendationsSecure developers' use of public code repositories, monitor them for secrets and if they get exposed, have a well-tested incident response playbook at the ready. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has shared these and other lessons learned after suffering a data leak.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a postmortem on a data leak in which a contractor published dozens of internal CISA credentials -- including AWS Govcloud keys -- in a public GitHub repository for almost six months before being notified by KrebsOnSecurity. Experts say the gaps identified in the agency's initial response provide important lessons that all security teams should absorb.