Personally, I don’t think the recreational developer needs GitHub’s personal access token based security. It was a poor decision to remove GitHub’s support for password authentication. Working with ...

It has been discovered that GitHub authentication tokens have been leaked from several well-known open source projects on GitHub, including those from Google, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS ...

GitHub pushes users to enable 2FA following end of password authentication for Git operations GitHub said on August 13 it will no longer accept account passwords when authenticating Git operations.

GitHub GitHub also provides links to help those looking to install it and urged anyone who hasn't already enabled two-factor authentication to do so through the account settings platform.

GitHub revealed details tied to last week’s incident where hackers, using stolen OAuth tokens, downloaded data from private repositories.

GitHub is an incredibly powerful tool for sharing source code, and its value to the modern hacker can’t be overstated. But there’s at least one downside to effortlessly sharing your sou… ...

GitHub is now automatically blocking the leak of sensitive information like API keys and access tokens for all public code repositories.

On August 26, 2025, Nx, the popular build platform with millions of weekly downloads, was compromised with ...