GitHub Secret Protection will detect and prevent secret leaks before they happen, using push protection, secret scanning, AI-powered detection, security insights, and other capabilities.

In a new report by GitHub, the development company says the 39 million secrets were found through its secret scanning service, a security feature that detects API keys, passwords, tokens, and ...

GitHub's goal is to use Advanced Security as both a warning system for developers and a built-in framework for bug hunters to find and report additional issues.

Image Credits: GitHub In the background, this new feature uses the CodeQL engine, GitHub’s semantic analysis engine to find vulnerabilities in code, even before it has been executed.