An audit of the SSH keys on GitHub found that some are weak enough to be factored and many others are vulnerable to the Debian OpenSSL bug from 2008.

When you add a security key to SSH operations, you can use these devices to protect you and your account from accidental exposure, account hijacking, or malware, GitHub security engineer Kevin ...

Do not change the email address. It must be: git@github.com To test the GitHub SSH connection for the Permission denied error, use the -T switch. If SSH is set up correctly, the output includes a ...

GitHub was forced to change its RSA SSH key today, after the private key was briefly exposed in a public GitHub repository. That’s why users who connected today to GitHub.com via SSH got a ...

Earlier this year, researcher Ben Cox collected the public SSH (Secure Shell) keys of users with access to GitHub-hosted repositories by using one of the platform’s features.

Assume your GitHub account is hacked, users with weak crypto keys told SSH keys give access to projects belonging to Spotify, Yandex, and UK gov.