Gitleaks is an open-source SAST tool designed to detect and prevent hardcoded secrets such as passwords, API keys, and tokens in Git repositories. With more than 15 million Docker downloads, 16,200 GitHub stars, 7 million GitHub downloads, thousands of weekly clones, and over 700,000 Homebrew installs, Gitleaks is one of the most trusted secret scanners among security professionals, enterprises, and developers. “Gitleaks attempts to follow the Unix philosophy of doing one thing and one thing … More →

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