For one, it gets around using personal access tokens with Git to push local repositories up to GitHub, as you can use the GitHub CLI application to authenticate your whole system.

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

GitHub has recently moved to a new format for all of its tokens, including personal access, OAuth access, user-to-server and server-to-server, and refresh tokens. As GitHub engineer Heather Harvey ...

GitHub now officially requires token-based authentication for its command line interface, third-party apps, and services that access Git repositories hosted on the platform.

GitHub Actions Secrets example One of the ongoing challenges DevOps professionals face when developing continuous integration workflows that integrate with disparate systems is how to protect that ...

Multiple high-profile open-source projects, including those from Google, Microsoft, AWS, and Red Hat, were found to leak GitHub authentication tokens through GitHub Actions artifacts in CI/CD ...

One of the key benefits to the Bitbucket App Password or the GitHub Access Token is that a user can receive administrative access to Git repositories, but have no rights at all to scripted pipelines, ...

Build artifacts generated by GitHub Actions often contain access tokens that can be abused by attackers to push malicious code into projects or compromise cloud infrastructure.

GitHub Copilot users, at least, the premium ones, will now be able to use Google Gemini 2.5 Pro for all their coding needs.