A contractor working for the agency Americans count on to defend against cyberattacks left the digital equivalent of the front door wide open. For months. In plain sight. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, or CISA, learned this month that one of its contractors had kept a public GitHub repository stuffed with highly privileged AWS GovCloud credentials, plaintext passwords for internal systems, and detailed files on how the age…
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