web-security
Safeguard articles tagged "web-security" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.
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The ZAP Security Testing Tool: A Practical Guide
How the ZAP security testing tool works as a free DAST scanner: passive and active scanning, the spider and AJAX spider, and how to run it in CI without noise.
CORS Misconfiguration Vulnerabilities
CORS misconfiguration vulnerabilities let attackers steal authenticated API data with a single reflected Origin header. Here's how they happen and how to catch them before release.
Open Redirect Vulnerabilities: Prevention Guide
An open redirect lets an attacker use your trusted domain to send victims anywhere — the ideal setup for phishing and OAuth token theft. Here's how to build redirects that can't be abused.
Best API Security Tools in 2026: An Honest Buyer's Guide
A balanced 2026 comparison of the leading API security tools — Salt Security, Akamai API Security, Traceable, 42Crunch, Wallarm, and StackHawk — with an honest look at where Safeguard fits.
The Go Web Application Security Checklist: Server Hardening to Output Encoding
A field-tested checklist for Go web services — the http.Server timeouts nobody sets, html/template escaping traps, auth and session hygiene, and the headers that actually matter.
Preventing SSRF in Python Applications
Server-side request forgery turns your own backend into an attacker's proxy, reaching internal services and cloud metadata endpoints you never meant to expose.
OAuth 2.0 Security Best Practices (2026)
OAuth 2.0 is safe when you follow the current security BCP and dangerous when you follow a decade-old tutorial. Here is what RFC 9700 requires in 2026: PKCE everywhere, exact redirect matching, and sender-constrained tokens.
Preventing CSRF and XSS in ASP.NET Core
How CSRF and XSS actually work against ASP.NET Core apps, and the concrete defenses, antiforgery tokens, Razor output encoding, CSP, and SameSite cookies, that shut them down.
What is CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery)?
CSRF makes a logged-in user's browser perform actions they never intended — changing an email, moving money, granting access — using the victim's own session. Here's how it works and how to stop it.
Path Traversal Vulnerability Prevention, Explained
One unvalidated filename and `../../../etc/passwd` reads files you never meant to expose — or worse, executes them. Here's how path traversal works and how to build file access that can't be tricked.
Cookie Security Best Practices (2026)
Session cookies are the keys to your users' accounts. Here is how to set them so they cannot be stolen, forged, or leaked: the flags, the prefixes, and the parsing pitfalls.
What is ReDoS (Regular Expression Denial of Service)?
A single badly written regular expression can freeze an entire service under a short, crafted input. This is ReDoS — and it has taken down Cloudflare and Stack Overflow. Here's how to avoid it.
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