Security News > 2023 > October > GitHub's Secret Scanning Feature Now Covers AWS, Microsoft, Google, and Slack
2023-10-06 08:53
GitHub has announced an improvement to its secret scanning feature that extends validity checks to popular services such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, Google, and Slack. Validity checks, introduced by the Microsoft subsidiary earlier this year, alert users whether exposed tokens found by secret scanning are active, thereby allowing for effective remediation measures. It was first
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