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Heroku Security Notification

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Re: Heroku Security Notification

#21
post #19

Does anyone know what to look for in the github audit logs, exactly?

Try here: https://github.com/settings/security-log

I used here:

/settings/audit-log" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/organizations//settings/audit-l...

... but the real question is what would malicious activity look like, exactly?

Re: Heroku Security Notification

#22
Ughh here I was at 1:30AM after a hard week, checking the news one last time before going to bed, and see this. I hate this dang industry and regret ever becoming a tech lead. I know the Heroku engineers have it worse and all, but just venting.

Re: Heroku Security Notification

#24
post #20

Interesting I had an OLD project associated with a Gmail email address that would send emails in some cases. Yesterday I got a notification that someone tried logging into that Gmail account. The password was hard coded in the code…

I too have seen something very similar to this. I am extremely nervous all my private repos got compromised. Watching this very closely.

Re: Heroku Security Notification

#26
This is a chance to reiterate best practices:

Credentials and other secrets, like API keys, should never be hard-coded in the source code repo. Use some sort of secrets management or configuration for that kind of stuff.

Re: Heroku Security Notification

#28

Ughh here I was at 1:30AM after a hard week, checking the news one last time before going to bed, and see this. I hate this dang industry and regret ever becoming a tech lead. I know the Heroku engineers have it worse and all, but just venting.

That’s rough. Stay strong, friend.

Re: Heroku Security Notification

#30

Does anyone know what to look for in the github audit logs, exactly?

Last year when I looked into this there was no automated way to get this info; the normal audit log mentioned below does not contain any info about actions from oauth-ed applications afaik.

If you email GitHub support they can pull out detailed logs from oauth app interactions from their internal tools.

I would expect the GH security team to have relevant queries ready by now, maybe even do some proactive queries and start alerting anyone who had suspicious activity. (But this is just how I'd do it I have no special insight if they are doing this or something else).

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