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Dev.to · Dwayne McDaniel
2d ago
The State of Secrets Sprawl 2026: AI-Service Leaks Surge 81% and 29M Secrets Hit Public GitHub
In less than a year, AI-assisted coding went from novelty to habit. What used to be a specialized...
Dev.to · Dwayne McDaniel
1w ago
How We Migrated the Heart of Our Platform to Rust
GitGuardian helps developers and security teams detect secrets (API keys, tokens, credentials) that...
Dev.to · Dwayne McDaniel
2w ago
Renovate & Dependabot: The New Malware Delivery System
Supply chain attacks every other morning Unless you've lived under a rock for the last few...
Dev.to · Dwayne McDaniel
2w ago
Leaked Kubernetes Secrets: Impact Assessment and Mitigation Strategies
Threat-intel reports from recent years document campaigns in which attackers obtain AWS IAM...
Dev.to · Dwayne McDaniel
2w ago
GCSI 2026: AI Readiness in a City Built in Layers
Chicago has a second downtown beneath the one most visitors see. The Downtown Pedestrian Walkway...
Dev.to · Dwayne McDaniel
2w ago
Mini Shai-Hulud: A persistent supply-chain worm
On April 29th, Aikido researchers detected multiple compromised Node.js packages in SAP's namespace...
Dev.to · Dwayne McDaniel
🤖 AI Agents & Automation
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3w ago
AI Agents Security for Developers: Don't Let Your Agents Become a Liability
👉 TL;DR: The most common agentic AI security mistakes are ordinary security hygiene failures, now...
Dev.to · Dwayne McDaniel
3w ago
How We Got a CISA GitHub Leak Taken Down in Under a Day
On May 14, 2026, GitGuardian found what looked like leaked CISA secrets in a public GitHub repository...
Dev.to · Dwayne McDaniel
3w ago
The Future Of GitHub Actions Security And What You Can Do Right Now
GitHub's new Actions security roadmap is a sign that the industry has finally accepted something many...
Dev.to · Dwayne McDaniel
3w ago
Vercel April 2026 Incident: Non-Sensitive Environment Variables Need Investigation Too
Vercel's April 2026 breach started with Context.ai, a third-party AI tool. An attacker compromised...
Dev.to · Dwayne McDaniel
1mo ago
The Bot Left a Fingerprint: Detecting and Attributing LLM-Generated Passwords
In February 2026, researchers at Irregular published a detailed post about LLM-generated passwords,...
Dev.to · Dwayne McDaniel
🔐 Cybersecurity
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1mo ago
GitGuardian Now Flags Admin and Overprivileged Identities Across AWS, Entra, and Okta
Not all leaked secrets carry the same risk. A leaked credential attached to a read-only logging job...
Dev.to · Dwayne McDaniel
1mo ago
Identity Access Management Strategy for Non-Human Identities
TL;DR: Non-human identities now represent the majority of active identities in cloud-native...
Dev.to · Dwayne McDaniel
1mo ago
Top 11 Identity Orchestration Tools and Platforms for 2026
TL;DR: Identity orchestration unifies fragmented IAM environments by connecting identity providers,...
Dev.to · Dwayne McDaniel
1mo ago
API Keys Security & Secrets Management Best Practices
TL;DR: Master API key management best practices by never storing unencrypted secrets in git,...
Dev.to · Dwayne McDaniel
1mo ago
Local Guardrails for Secrets Security in the Age of AI Coding Assistants
Software supply chain security used to feel like a problem that lived somewhere else. The repository...
Dev.to · Dwayne McDaniel
1mo ago
Git Clean, Git Remove file from commit - Cheatsheet
TL;DR: Learn how to remove files from git commits, whether staged, recent, or deep in history, to...
Dev.to · Dwayne McDaniel
1mo ago
Short-Lived Credentials in Agentic Systems: A Practical Trade-off Guide
Agentic systems need short-lived credentials as a baseline security control. That point is pretty...
Dev.to · Dwayne McDaniel
🔐 Cybersecurity
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1mo ago
No Off Season: Three Supply Chain Campaigns Hit npm, PyPI, and Docker Hub in 48 Hours
After a few quieter weeks, three supply chain attacks put secrets back in the spotlight. Between...
Dev.to · Dwayne McDaniel
1mo ago
SnowFROC 2026: Secure Defaults, Real Trust, and a Better Layer on Top
Denver likes a good origin story. The city still keeps a marker for Louis Ballast and the Humpty...
Dev.to · Dwayne McDaniel
1mo ago
ATLSECCON 2026: Context, Identity, and Restraint in Modern Security
Harbor cities understand accumulated risk. Cargo moves in quietly. Weather shifts by degrees. One bad...
Dev.to · Dwayne McDaniel
1mo ago
AI Agents Authentication: How Autonomous Systems Prove Identity
TL;DR: AI agents are acting entities given more and more autonomy to execute tasks, write code, and...
Dev.to · Dwayne McDaniel
2mo ago
BSides SF 2026: Looking At Security Beyond The Next Big Bet
San Francisco has always had a talent for turning risk into infrastructure, such as when Charles Fey...
Dev.to · Dwayne McDaniel
2mo ago
Honeytokens on the Developer Workstation: When Cleanup Takes Time
Supply chain security has moved closer to the humans with hands on the keyboard. For years, security...
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