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Krebs on Security
threat-intel
July 13, 2026 at 15:03 UTC
Lessons Learned from CISA’s Recent GitHub Leak
By BrianKrebs
AI Summary
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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