Remote Git operations -- including push, fetch, and pull -- will require an additional key tap in an attempt to prevent malware from initiating requests on your behalf.

GitHub's RSA SSH private key was accidentally leaked to the public, as confirmed by the code hosting platform's CEO, Mike Hanley.

Here's a quick example of how to perform a GitHub SSH clone operation. In just five minutes, learn how to create SSH keys, configure them in GitHub and perform the GitHub clone with SSH keys in Git.

GitHub announced today the introduction of passwordless authentication support in public beta, allowing users who opt-in to upgrade from security keys to passkeys.

GitHub rotated keys potentially exposed by a vulnerability patched in December that could let attackers access credentials within production containers via environment variables.

GitHub's secret scanning alerts are available on all public repositories, and its push protection is now offered for custom secret patterns.