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Surviving the GitHub OAuth hack – remediating thousands of hardcoded credentials
3 points by lumberjack24 1524 days ago
While going through other HN threads, I noticed many participants in the discussions recommend that organizations noticing suspicious repo cloning activity start scanning source code for credentials. This is a great advice to limit the damage.

But where do you start when you find thousands of secrets exposed?

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The other day I wrote a guide to help security and engineering teams prioritize and remediate thousands of such incidents. Hope it helps!

https://blog.gitguardian.com/a-practical-guide-to-prioritize...