secure-coding
Safeguard articles tagged "secure-coding" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.
188 articles
Blind SQL Injection: A Practical Cheat Sheet
This blind sql injection cheat sheet covers how boolean-based and time-based blind attacks actually work, why they succeed against apps with no visible error output, and how to close them off.
How SQL Injection Works and How to Prevent It
How to perform SQL injection is really a question about how the attack class works so you can detect and stop it. A defensive walkthrough of the mechanism and the fixes that hold.
Application Security Vulnerabilities: What They Are and How to Fix Them
Application security vulnerabilities are the flaws in your code, dependencies, and configuration that attackers exploit. This guide covers the common classes and how to find and fix them.
MySQL Injection Cheat Sheet: How to Detect and Stop SQLi
A defender's MySQL injection cheat sheet: the query patterns attackers probe for, how login bypass and UNION-based extraction work, and how to shut them down.
The Java Cheat Sheet Developers Actually Need for Secure Code
Most Java cheat sheets stop at syntax. This one is the security-focused reference: the APIs, patterns, and one-liners that keep injection, deserialization, and crypto bugs out of your code.
Command Injection Payloads: How They Work and How to Stop Them
Command injection payloads abuse applications that pass user input to a system shell. This defensive guide explains the mechanics, detection, and prevention.
Encryption Algorithms in Java: A Practical Overview
Java ships a wide menu of encryption algorithms through its Java Cryptography Architecture, but picking the wrong mode or a deprecated cipher is one of the most common security findings in Java codebases.
Python pickle.dump Explained, and Why It Can Get You Popped
How Python's pickle.dump actually works, a runnable example, and the deserialization risk that turns a saved object into remote code execution.
Python Pickle Load: A Security Guide
Calling python pickle load on data you do not fully control can execute arbitrary code. Here is why, and what to use instead.
The Most Common Software Vulnerabilities and How to Prevent Them
The handful of common software vulnerabilities that keep showing up in real breaches, why they persist, and the concrete practices that shut each one down.
Static Code Scan: How SAST Finds Bugs Before They Ship
A static code scan analyzes source without running it, catching injection, secrets, and unsafe patterns early. Here is what it can and cannot see, and how to wire one into CI.
Code Quality Software and Security: Where Clean Code and Safe Code Overlap
Code quality software catches more security bugs than most teams give it credit for. Here is how quality tooling and security tooling overlap, where they diverge, and how to combine them.
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