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- Amazon Security Lake , Application security , GitHub , GitHub Advanced Security , Secret Protection , Secret Scanning
- April 1, 2025
GitHub found 39M secret leaks in 2024. Here’s what we’re doing to help
Every minute, GitHub blocks several secrets with push protection—but secret leaks still remain one of the most common causes of security incidents. Learn how GitHub is making it easier to protect yourself from exposed secrets, including today’s launches of standalone Secret Protection, org-wide scanning, and better access for teams of all sizes.
The post GitHub found 39M secret leaks in 2024. Here’s what we’re doing to help appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
- Engineering , GitHub , GitHub Advanced Security , GitHub Copilot , Platform security , Secret Scanning
- March 4, 2025
Finding leaked passwords with AI: How we built Copilot secret scanning
Passwords are notoriously difficult to detect with conventional programming approaches. AI can help us find passwords better because it understands context. This blog post will explore the technical challenges we faced with building the feature and the novel and creative ways we solved them.
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