gitleaks VS trufflehog

install gitleaks in your machine gitleaks

> gitleaks : fatal error: runtime: out of memory

Should be fixed now: https://github.com/gitleaks/gitleaks/pull/1292. Thanks for highlighting this simple change I've been putting off :)

I work in IT and we're enhancing our 'Shift Left Security' approach to prevent sensitive data leaks in our GitHub repositories. We've customized Gitleaks to send git-related information (like remote repository, author details, commit hash etc.) to our backend after each commit. This setup helps us monitor Gitleaks usage among our developers. (gitleaks)

Cool. What features/capabilities are different compared to gitleaks?

To add my anecdote, testing out Trufflehog versus Gitleaks and detect-secrets the other tools seemed superior on detection rate and easier to work with.

Some tools to consider: Gitleaks - open-source secret scanner for git repositories, files, and directories. Retire.js - dependency check tool for client JS code. Censys - It’s a search engine that you can use, for example, to scan any IP address and check open ports, software versions, location of the servers, etc. If you want to check more tools, you can download this free ebook with a list of recommended security tools: https://brightinventions.pl/blog/app-security-free-ebook/ The listed tools are free or offer free trials.

bonuses: - https://github.com/trufflesecurity/trufflehog - https://github.com/gitleaks/gitleaks

I GET IT I need to follow best practice and not upload any sensitive information, even if its a private repo. But through my 10 yeras of coding it happened twice. However these keys only lived in 2 areas: my laptop and GITHUB. My laptop is pretty secured, and the timing of the above events just make me really think someone internally at Github is running https://github.com/gitleaks/gitleaks on private repos he / she has access to.

Maybe https://github.com/gitleaks/gitleaks is what you are looking for

Gitleaks

Trufflehog

Frankly, I think it will take years to replace API-keys (if it will ever happen). Developers are much better-off using CLI tools that prevent leaking secrets by blocking commits to git (e.g., https://github.com/Infisical/infisical or https://github.com/trufflesecurity/trufflehog)

Trufflehog also offers pre-commit hooks. You can have it report on PRs too.

Is this not just a another https://github.com/trufflesecurity/trufflehog?

I agree that code scanning is really important, the best way to convince others is to identify high-risk threats in source code and present them to the decision-makers. For example, scanning Secrets is great for showing how repositories can be a massive vulnerability and identifying some low-hanging fruit, especially in the git history. Attackers are really after git repository access for this reason and there are plenty of open-source or free tools that you can use to illustrate the problem. Git-Secrets, Truffle Hog. These aren't great for a long-term commercial solution, something like GitGuardian is a better commercial tool but if the goal is just to illustrate the problem then finding some high-value secrets with free tools is a good way to convince the security personnel to invest in some solutions. Then the door is open to having more conversations as you have already proven the risk.

It’s easy to think that it’s only important to scan for secrets in your public-facing repositories, but this real-world data breach proves that you need to treat all code the same from a security perspective. Malicious hackers can use open-source tools like Gitleaks and TruffleHog to quickly detect secrets in massive amounts of code*, without leaving a trace. As a defender, **it’s extremely important to have secret scans tightly integrated into your SDLC* (software development lifecycle) to reduce the risks of exposing them. GitGuardian offers secret scanning for private repositories in their Free, Business, and Enterprise plans.

There are software like Trufflehog ( https://github.com/trufflesecurity/trufflehog ), that finds secrets. We are using it at organizational level, but there's always some delay from finding something and getting it reported. I've been meaning to add it both to our CI so our team can notice right away, and even to Git push hooks, to catch these cases early.

https://github.com/trufflesecurity/trufflehog And https://github.com/Yelp/detect-secrets

Have you tried trufflehog or gitrob? gitrob trufflehog