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

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 has rotated its private SSH key for GitHub.com after the secret was was accidentally published in a public GitHub repository. The software development and version control service says, the ...

GitHub was forced to change its RSA SSH key today, after the private key was briefly exposed in a public GitHub repository. That’s why users who connected today to GitHub.com via SSH got a ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. To fix GitHub’s Permission denied to [email protected] (publickey) error, you must address one ...

A number of high-profile source-code repositories hosted on GitHub could have been modified using weak SSH authentication keys, a security researcher has warned. The potentially vulnerable ...

The basic was SSH runs is with keys, you create SSH keys in Mac OS X using the ssh-keygen command in Terminal. This feature looks at how to generate an SSH key pair in Terminal.