GitHub Forced To Diable Search After Exposing Private SSH Keys

January 25, 2013 By Ali Loney

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Softpedia – (International) GitHub forced to disable search after exposing private SSH keys. GitHub disabled its new search function after it returned results that included private Secure Shell (SSH) keys used by several Web sites.

Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/GitHub-Forced-to-Disable-Search-After-Exposing-Private-SSH-Keys-324200.shtml

Tags: security, AppSec Spotlight

Written by Ali Loney

Ali Loney is a Senior UX Designer at Walmart Labs. She is based in Canada and was the former Graphic Designer at Sonatype.

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