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lumberjack24··on Show HN: Forest Admin Cloud
Forest Admin's out-of-the-box admin panel + the convenience of the cloud, this is all developers ever wanted for their internal tools!
lumberjack24··on Where do stolen bikes go?
To Casablanca, Morocco.
lumberjack24··on The Current Secrets Rotation Process Is Broken
Hey, maybe try running a GitGuardian [1] scan on all those repositories to look for hardcoded secrets. GitGuardian can also test in some cases if the secrets are valid or not, meaning you have to revoke and rotate them asap. I hope this helps.

[1] https://www.gitguardian.com/monitor-internal-repositories-fo...

Disclaimer: I work for GitGuardian.

lumberjack24··on Tell HN: Thanks and hats off to all the non software engineers
geez.
lumberjack24··on Software dark matter is the enemy of software transparency
“dark matter” sounds like marketing speak.
lumberjack24··on Europe now has so much natural gas that prices just dipped below zero
well, they haven’t turned my building’s heating on yet.
lumberjack24··on Toyota suffered a data breach by accidentally exposing a secret key on GitHub
Here's a checklist [1] (again, from gitguardian) of steps to follow before open-sourcing projects and [2] a guide on how to remediate hardcoded/exposed secrets.

[1] https://blog.gitguardian.com/safely-open-source-software-bes... [2] https://blog.gitguardian.com/leaking-secrets-on-github-what-...

lumberjack24··on Toyota suffered a data breach by accidentally exposing a secret key on GitHub
Great idea, but hard to enforce. Just use a scanning CLI like TruffleHog, Gitleaks, or ggshield from GitGuardian to catch all sorts of hardcoded secrets.
lumberjack24··on Toyota suffered a data breach by accidentally exposing a secret key on GitHub
GitGuardian actually does this, it monitors an extended perimeter of devs and their personal/open-source repos for corporate secrets or keywords – https://www.gitguardian.com/monitor-public-github-for-secret...
lumberjack24··on Toyota suffered a data breach by accidentally exposing a secret key on GitHub
In the meantime, try ggshield cli https://github.com/GitGuardian/ggshield
lumberjack24··on Toyota suffered a data breach by accidentally exposing a secret key on GitHub
The access model on platforms like GitHub is flawed, a single account can be used for both professional and personal projects/repositories, leading to “fat finger” errors like this one here...
lumberjack24··on Translating Piracy: On the origin of the Arabic words qurṣān/qarṣanah
I can’t help but wonder why qursān ended up being the final form instead of qursāl.
lumberjack24··on Uber investigating breach of its computer systems
That hardcoded secret in the powershell script really was the key to the Uber ride-hailing kingdom – https://blog.gitguardian.com/uber-breach-2022.
lumberjack24··on Ask HN: Anyone working 4 day week here, as an employee?
open to referrals?
lumberjack24··on Show HN: I grew my startup to 100.000 visitors /m with no time for marketing
show me the mrr
lumberjack24··on Baking bread with the Romans part III – the panis quadratus strikes back (2018)
Photos don’t load on mobile :/
lumberjack24··on Comité Liquidant Ou Détournant Les Ordinateurs (C.L.O.D.O.) (1983)
These folks must be retired by now and they have lived enough to find out they lost their crusade against computers.
lumberjack24··on Ask HN: How to get developers and UI designers to work well together
Try https://www.specifyapp.com and thank me later!
lumberjack24··on Admit It, Squirrels Are Just Tree Rats
Just like shrimps are sea cockroaches.
lumberjack24··on In defence of garlic in a jar
I’m 28 y.o and this is the first time I hear about garlic in a jar. U.S.A never ceases to amaze me.
lumberjack24··on Mighty: The Browser You Didn’t Know You Needed but Definitely Do
My brother in Christ, you have an email job and you definitely don't need this browser.
lumberjack24··on Heroku Security Notification
A few days before this attack campaign started, I wrote a guide to help security and engineering teams prioritize and remediate thousands of secrets-in-code incidents.

Hope it can help some of the organizations dealing with this right now!

https://blog.gitguardian.com/a-practical-guide-to-prioritize...

lumberjack24··on Attack campaign involving stolen OAuth tokens issued to third-party integrators
A few days before this attack campaign started, I wrote a guide to help security and engineering teams prioritize and remediate thousands of secrets-in-code incidents.

Hope it can help some of the organizations dealing with this right now!

https://blog.gitguardian.com/a-practical-guide-to-prioritize...

lumberjack24··on Surviving the GitHub OAuth hack – remediating thousands of hardcoded credentials
The other day I wrote a guide to help security and engineering teams prioritize and remediate thousands of such incidents. Hope it helps!

https://blog.gitguardian.com/a-practical-guide-to-prioritize...

lumberjack24··on Ask HN: What is the fastest way to ramp up on DevOps, k8 and GCP?
If you're looking to add secrets management and scanning to the curriculum, take a look at GitGuardian–https://www.gitguardian.com/monitor-internal-repositories-fo....
lumberjack24··on I found loads of hardcoded secrets in Docker images
While hunting for secrets on the Docker Hub, we found that Codecov is not the only organisation to have hardcoded secrets in their Docker images.
lumberjack24··on Ask HN: What are the best automated tools for keeping credentials out of GitHub?
Try GitGuardian to monitor internal repos on GitHub, 100k+ developers use it to scan their commits for all sorts of credentials and secrets.

https://bit.ly/3AHfI9d

lumberjack24··on At launch, GitGuardian ranks all-time #2 third-party app on GitHub Marketplace
Hardening the DevOps pipeline with automated secrets detection just got easier. You can now connect your GitHub repos to GitGuardian in a few clicks and avoid credentials leaks.
lumberjack24··on Launch HN: Manara (YC W21) – Connect Middle East engineers with global companies
Manara sounds like a beacon of light for the MENA engineers!

Congrats to you Laila and Iliana for the launch and I will definitely be sharing this with fellow Tunisian developers :)

lumberjack24··on Ask HN: What low-code “dashboarding“ SaaS would you recommend in 2021?
Forest Admin, if we're talking about more than dashboards/charts and you need to dig record deep to perform CRUD operations - https://www.forestadmin.com
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