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.

Developers affected by the deprecation of password authentication will need to switch to authentication using personal access tokens through HTTPS or SSH when working with Git, or enable GitHub ...

GitHub revealed details tied to last week’s incident where hackers, using stolen OAuth tokens, downloaded data from private repositories.

Developers from hundreds of companies have included access tokens for their Slack accounts in public projects on GitHub, putting their teams' internal chats and other data at risk.

It was a poor decision to remove GitHub’s support for password authentication. Working with GitHub becomes more difficult, and it’s much harder for beginners to get started with Git and GitHub.

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.

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.

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, ...

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