GitHub has announced an AI detector, developed with Microsoft Applied Sciences, to help prevent developers from uploading passwords and other credentials to code repositories. The ModernBERT-based classifier will expand GitHub’s push protection, which checks code for secrets and can block a push before a credential enters repository history. How the detector works Existing checks recognize many credentials by their formats.
GitHub adds AI to catch passwords before a code push
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