SMRTR ProgrammingMar 4, 2025Daily.dev

Finding leaked passwords with AI: How we built Copilot secret scanning

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GitHub has introduced Copilot secret scanning, an AI-powered feature to detect generic passwords in codebases. This new capability improves precision in identifying potential security vulnerabilities, reducing false positives by up to 94% in some cases while maintaining high detection rates.

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