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It takes hackers 1 minute to find and abuse credentials exposed on GitHub - Comparitech

Accepted submission by MrPlow at 2020-10-01 17:16:29
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Submitted via IRC for SoyCow639

We set up a honeypot by publishing AWS credentials in public GitHub repositories to find out how attackers find and abuse them.

Source: https://www.comparitech.com/blog/information-security/github-honeypot/ [comparitech.com]


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