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GitHub's RSA SSH Private Key Leaks! Was It a Breach?

GitHub's RSA SSH private key was accidentally leaked to the public, as confirmed by the code hosting platform's CEO, Mike Hanley. An engineer from the Israeli company "Commun.it" uses his expertise in ...
Dark Reading

GitHub's Private RSA SSH Key Mistakenly Exposed in Public Repository

GitHub, a Microsoft subsidiary has replaced its SSH keys after someone inadvertently published its private RSA SSH host key part of the encryption scheme in an open GitHub repository. While some may ...
Bleeping Computer

GitHub.com rotates its exposed private SSH key

GitHub has rotated its private SSH key for GitHub.com after the secret was was accidentally published in a public GitHub repository. The software development and version control service says, the ...
Threat Post

TLS Implementations Vulnerable to RSA Key Leaks

A number of TLS software implementations contain vulnerabilities that allow hackers with minimal computational expense to learn RSA keys. A number of TLS software implementations contain ...
BizTech Magazine

How Can Public and Private Key Encryption Protect Private Data?

Public and private key cryptography is a powerful solution. The former (asymmetric cryptography) involves a pair of keys that ...
Threat Post

Factorization Flaw in TPM Chips Makes Attacks on RSA Private Keys Feasible

A flawed Infineon Technology chipset left HP, Lenovo and Microsoft devices open to what is called a ‘practical factorization attack,’ in which an attacker computes the private part of an RSA key. A ...
InfoWorld

Google Go upgrade fixes bug that could leak RSA private key

Google has released an upgrade to Go 1.5.3 to fix a security issue with the math/big package for implementing multiprecision arithmetic. Go programs must be recompiled with this version to receive the ...