The Danger Of Zombie Leaks

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" covering things we discovered about secrets that have been accidentally published to public repositories in the past year. One of the call-outs in the 2024 report had to do not just with the number of secrets we discovered published to GitHub but what happened after we discovered them.

What makes a leak a"zombie" is that the owner of the secret either ignores the fact it was leaked altogether or thinks they've solved the problem by getting rid of the public access to the leaked secret, but they do not revoke the secret and make it impossible to use—leaving the secret as a lurking threat.Assuming that in a sea of millions of leaks, you're highly unlikely to have yours exploited. There are many bots parsing through a lot of repositories.

1. Ensure safer secret usage methods in your development practices such as using a secrets management service. Some of the best-known include CyberArk, AWS Secrets Manager and HashiCorp Vault. • The software producer has a policy or process to address discovered security vulnerabilities prior to product release.

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