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#5 Krebs on Security threat-intel July 13, 2026 at 15:03 UTC

Lessons Learned from CISA’s Recent GitHub Leak

By BrianKrebs

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CISA's postmortem on a contractor-caused data leak reveals that dozens of internal credentials — including AWS GovCloud keys — sat exposed in a public GitHub repository for nearly six months before KrebsOnSecurity notified the agency. The incident exposes critical gaps in secrets scanning, contractor oversight, and incident response that mirror risks faced by most enterprise security teams.

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