secure-coding
Safeguard articles tagged "secure-coding" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.
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Preventing SQL Injection: A Defense-in-Depth Approach
Parameterized queries stop most SQL injection, but the attacks that make it to production usually slip past a single control — here's the layered defense that catches the rest.
What Is a Security Development Model and How Do You Run One?
A security development model bakes threat modeling, code review, and testing into every stage of the SDLC instead of bolting security on at the end. Here is how the model works in practice.
A Practical Race Condition Example (and How to Fix It)
A race condition example is easiest to understand through a bank-balance check-then-act bug. Here is the anatomy, the exploit, and three ways to close it.
Use-After-Free Vulnerability: How It Works and How to Prevent It
A use-after-free vulnerability happens when a program keeps using memory it already released. Here is why it is dangerous, how attackers exploit it, and how to catch it.
What Is This Code? How to Read and Secure Unfamiliar Source
A practical method for answering "what is this code?" when you inherit an unfamiliar file, plus how to spot the security problems hiding inside it.
How to Avoid SQL Injection: A Developer's Guide
To avoid SQL injection, never build queries by concatenating user input, use parameterized queries everywhere, and treat every input as untrusted. Here's the defensive playbook.
SAST Definition: What Static Application Security Testing Actually Means
The SAST definition, in plain terms: analyzing source code for vulnerabilities without running it. Here is how it works, what it catches, and where it falls short.
Source Code Auditing: How to Find Bugs Before Attackers Do
Source code auditing is the systematic review of code for security flaws. Here is how to run one, where automation fits, and what humans still do better.
Code Quality Analysis and Security: Why Clean Code Is Safer Code
Code quality analysis and security testing overlap more than teams realize. Here is how measuring quality catches whole classes of vulnerabilities early.
What Does CWE Stand For? Common Weakness Enumeration Explained
CWE stands for Common Weakness Enumeration, a community catalog of software and hardware weakness types. Here is what it is and how it differs from CVE.
Why Python's eval() Is Dangerous and What to Use Instead
Python eval() runs arbitrary code, and feeding it untrusted input is a remote code execution bug waiting to happen. Here's the risk, how the exploit works conceptually, and safer alternatives.
Fixing XXE in Java: A Parser-by-Parser Hardening Guide
A parser-by-parser XXE fix for Java, covering DocumentBuilderFactory, SAXParser, XMLInputFactory, TransformerFactory, and the XML libraries that still ship unsafe defaults.
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