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.

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 revoked weak SSH authentication keys generated using a library that incorrectly created duplicate RSA keypairs.

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!

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 ...

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

Creating and Using SSH Keys in Windows There are several ways to create SSH keys in Windows. Follow the instructions below for the SSH client you use. Generating SSH keys with OpenSSH (Windows 10 and ...

In this guide, we will see an easy method to generate an SSH key in Windows 11 or Windows 10. SSH or Secure Shell is a cryptographic network protocol that makes a secure tunnel over the unsecured ...

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 ...

Updated: Github users have been caught out storing keys and passwords in public repositories. Search links popped up throughout Twitter today pointing to stored keys including what was reportedly ...