Using SSH to set up a SOCKS proxy is a powerful and quick way to route your internet traffic securely through a remote server ...

Try removing ~/.ssh/known_hosts. This should make you type in "yes" to save the verification key for every machine name/IP you try to access again, but oh well.

A better choice is to disable Strict Host Key Checking which you do by editing the SSH configuration in ~/.ssh/config (if the file doesn’t exist, then you simply create it).

GitHub has rotated its private SSH key for GitHub.com after the secret was was accidentally published in a public GitHub repository. The software development and version control service says, the ...

Make sure to have confirmed SSH host keys previously. Add the host key to your known_hosts file as an entry for localhost, because SSH will see the connection as being to localhost. Use -D to create a ...

Around 150 of the HTTPS server certificates they recovered are used by 3.2 million devices and 80 of the SSH host keys are used by 900,000 devices.

Secure authentication: SSH keys are encrypted and stored in the vault within an SSH item type, accessible only after user authentication to protect critical operations like Git commits or server ...

A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-31497 in PuTTY 0.68 through 0.80 could potentially allow attackers with access to 60 cryptographic signatures to recover the private key used for their generation.

“This change only impacts Git operations over SSH using RSA. Web traffic to GitHub.com and HTTPS Git operations are not affected.” Further, the company added that only GitHub.com’s RSA SSH key was ...

Around 150 of the HTTPS server certificates they recovered are used by 3.2 million devices and 80 of the SSH host keys are used by 900,000 devices.