Analyzing the Hidden Danger of Environment Variables for Keeping Secrets - Trend Micro

While DevOps practitioners use environment variables to regularly keep secrets in applications, these could be conveniently abused by cybercriminals for their malicious activities, as our analysis shows.

Why is the use of environment variables bad for secrets? We previously published an article on the importance of proper secrets management, how improper practices could allow access to crucial syste… [+2383 chars]

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