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GitHub is a hosted software-development platform built around Git repositories. It supports public and private source-code hosting, change review through pull requests, issue tracking, automated workflows, and package distribution. Its repositories and automation are important security assets because they can contain proprietary code, deployment instructions, credentials, and the components used to build released software.
Material risks include accidentally committing secrets, exposing private repositories through misconfigured permissions, and allowing compromised dependencies or workflow actions to run in trusted build environments. Pull requests from untrusted contributors can also become an execution path when workflows handle them unsafely. Security practice includes least-privilege access, strong authentication, protected branches and required reviews, secret scanning and rapid credential revocation, and auditing workflow permissions. Repository history, dependency metadata, and commit provenance can support vulnerability management and incident investigation, but deleting a leaked secret from the latest file does not remove it from historical commits or existing clones.
The hack wraps up a year of bad security incidents for identity Intruders copied source code belonging to Okta after breaching the identity management company's GitHub repositories.…
Okta, a company that provides identity and access management services, disclosed on Wednesday that some of its source code repositories were accessed in an unauthorized manner earlier this month
In a 'confidential' email notification sent by Okta and seen by BleepingComputer, the company states that attackers gained access to its GitHub repositories this month and stole the company's source code. [...]
In a 'confidential' email notification sent by Okta and seen by BleepingComputer, the company states that attackers gained access to its GitHub repositories this month and stole the company's source code. [...]