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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

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!

Greetings humans, So recently I've started working with a macbook (macos ventura 13.0) and I have a frustrating issue which I cannot solve: every time I restart the latpop I have to add my ssh ...