An open source alternative GitHub Secret scanning, GitGuardian & co

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🔍 Spotlight: TruffleHog

TruffleHog is an open source secret scanner that identifies and addresses exposed secrets throughout your entire technology stack.

Millions of secrets, including API keys, tokens, and passwords, are frequently leaking from sources like source code, chat systems, support tickets, and more. TruffleHog scans for sensitive credentials beyond the source code to include hidden content, deleted code, and version history from commonly used tools across your company.

TruffleHog is a widely used open source project with over 50,000 daily runs by developers and security teams. It has over 14 million downloads and 13.5k GitHub stars, and is distributed with a AGPL-3.0 license.

Learn more about TruffleHog: Website | GitHub

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Until next week,

Jonathan (@jonathimer)