GitHub makes its push protection feature, which automatically blocks a leak of sensitive data like API keys and access tokens, free for all public repositories
GitHub is now automatically blocking the leak of sensitive information like API keys and access tokens for all public code repositories.
Leaked credentials were the #1 cause of data breaches in 2021 and 2022. Push protection will fix that - think of it as an “are you sure?” prompt before you push a secret to a public repo. (For now it's opt-in at the repo-level, but the plan is to make it a user-level setting.) ht…