Developers affected by the deprecation of password authentication will need to switch to authentication using personal access tokens through HTTPS or SSH when working with Git, or enable GitHub ...

For one, it gets around using personal access tokens with Git to push local repositories up to GitHub, as you can use the GitHub CLI application to authenticate your whole system.

GitHub revealed details tied to last week’s incident where hackers, using stolen OAuth tokens, downloaded data from private repositories.

GitHub now officially requires token-based authentication for its command line interface, third-party apps, and services that access Git repositories hosted on the platform.

GitHub has added support for securing SSH Git operations using FIDO2 security keys for added protection from account takeover attempts.

Build artifacts generated by GitHub Actions often contain access tokens that can be abused by attackers to push malicious code into projects or compromise cloud infrastructure.

Developers from hundreds of companies have included access tokens for their Slack accounts in public projects on GitHub, putting their teams' internal chats and other data at risk.

GitHub has recently moved to a new format for all of its tokens, including personal access, OAuth access, user-to-server and server-to-server, and refresh tokens. As GitHub engineer Heather Harvey ...

GitHub now officially requires token-based authentication for its command line interface, third-party apps, and services that access Git repositories hosted on the platform.