As development environments grow more complex, applications increasingly communicate with many external services. When a software development project communicates with an external service, it utilizes a token or “secret” for authentication. These tokens are the glue that keeps any modern application together, and there is a staggering volume and variety of them in code today. If these secrets leak, the consequences can be enormous. Hence, attackers consider them crown jewels and constantly look for ways … More
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