Credential confusion Now here’s the problem. When anyone is presented with a form with two fields, the first instinct is to provide your username and password, but that is not what Git asks for. Users ...

Hackers have stolen tens of thousands of cloud account credentials, by abusing exposed Git configuration files, experts have claimed. Git configuration files are where Git saves different ...

Git configuration files usually include sensitive information such as user email addresses, access tokens, authentication credentials, and remote repository URLs that embed usernames or tokens.

CISA urges federal agencies to immediately patch an exploited arbitrary file write vulnerability in Git that leads to remote ...

Threat actors are intensifying internet-wide scanning for Git configuration files that can reveal sensitive secrets and authentication tokens used to compromise cloud services and source code ...

How to set push.autoSetupRemote To tell Git to automatically create new branches in remote repositories upon a push, simply issue the following command: git config --global --add --bool ...