Potential leak of data: Simple Password

Detected 1 occurrence(s) of ‘\s*pass[word]+\s*[:=]\s*["'][a-z0-9\-_\!\$]+["']‘: tialCache(); credentialCache.Add(new System.Uri(url), "Basic", new NetworkCredential(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["ead_username"], ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["ead_password"])); return credentialCache; } String username = "abc"; String password = "123"; String encoded = System.Convert.ToBase64String(System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(username + ":" + password)); httpWebRequest.Headers.Add("Authorization", "Basic " + encoded); System.Net.CredentialCache credentialCache = new System.Net.CredentialCach Source: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=ViT6eVia