GitHub has announced on Monday that it expanded its code hosting platform's secrets scanning capabilities for GitHub Advanced Security customers to block secret leaks automatically. Secret scanning is ...

On October 13, 2026, the GitHub Changelog announced "Secret scanning blocks Anthropic keys by default, adds Salesforce." This ...

Over time, the situation has only worsened – the density of exposed secrets, measured per million files, has steadily ...

GitHub is now automatically blocking the leak of sensitive information like API keys and access tokens for all public code repositories. Today's announcement comes after the company introduced push ...

A scan of billions of files from 13 percent of all GitHub public repositories over a period of six months has revealed that over 100,000 repos have leaked API tokens and cryptographic keys, with ...

On October 7, GitHub announced plans to expand its dedicated AI model for detecting potential secret leaks to secret scanning ...

GitHub launched a public preview on July 1 that fundamentally changes where enterprise secret scanning looks: instead of watching only the repositories an organization controls, a new feature called ...

More than 500 GitHub accounts committed credential-stealing workflows to tens of thousands of repositories since October 7, Socket says.