The Sonatype Security Research team has identified over 15,000 npm packages that flood npm registry in a new trend where devs involved in the blockchain and cryptocurrency communities are leveraging
Kubernetes Secrets store usernames and passwords as base-64 encoded strings. They are obscured from casual browsing, but this is the same as plaintext.
Ease you worries with system hardening. Akash Mahajan (@makash) told his personal journey with system hardening in his talk, The Secrets in Our Clouds.