"Publicly Accessible Code Is Often Full of Credentials"

According to a survey of 450,000 Python projects conducted by the security company GitGuardian, publicly accessible programming code still often contains credentials that can expose access to underlying databases or cloud services. Source code has often been found to house cryptographic keys, passwords, and more, which can lead to major security incidents. GitGuardian's analysis of 450,000 Python projects in the official Python code repository Python Package Index (PyPI) found a total of 4,000 built-in secrets. Around 3,000 projects had at least one embedded secret. This article continues to discuss key findings from GitGuardian's survey of 450,000 Python projects.

Techzine reports "Publicly Accessible Code Is Often Full of Credentials"

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