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 ...

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!

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 ...

An audit of the SSH keys on GitHub found that some are weak enough to be factored and many others are vulnerable to the Debian OpenSSL bug from 2008.

Assume your GitHub account is hacked, users with weak crypto keys told SSH keys give access to projects belonging to Spotify, Yandex, and UK gov.

As an authentication mechanism, SSH provides two-factor authentication in the form of something you have (the secret key) and something you know (the key phrase).

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.