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Application Security

Secure password hashing in Go: bcrypt, Argon2, and the mistakes in between

Go's bcrypt package caps input at 72 bytes and returns ErrPasswordTooLong instead of silently truncating — one of several Go-specific quirks that trip up password hashing code.

Jul 8, 20266 min read
Application Security

Secure URL Encoding and Decoding in Java

Java's URLEncoder turns spaces into + instead of %20 — a form-encoding quirk that, mixed with double-decoding, still causes path-traversal bugs like CVE-2025-41242 in 2025.

Jul 8, 20266 min read
Application Security

Secure session lifecycle management: tokens, rotation, and cookie flags

OWASP requires session IDs carry at least 64 bits of entropy, yet a 2007 Rails flaw shows one dropped attribute is enough to make fixation trivial.

Jul 8, 20266 min read
Application Security

Robust input validation in Spring Boot: Bean Validation and its bypasses

Bean Validation (JSR-380) looks like a solved problem in Spring Boot, but nested DTOs, list elements, and unannotated service methods routinely skip validation silently.

Jul 8, 20266 min read
Application Security

The most common Spring Boot security misconfigurations, and how to fix them

CVE-2026-40976 let anonymous users hit /actuator/env and /actuator/heapdump on default Spring Boot 4 filter chains, CVSS 9.1 — here's how to actually harden Spring Boot.

Jul 8, 20266 min read
Application Security

Unsafe Deserialization in Swift: NSCoding, Codable, and Safer Patterns

Two 2019 iOS zero-click bugs, CVE-2019-8646 and CVE-2019-8647, both traced back to NSKeyedUnarchiver — a reminder that Swift's Objective-C legacy still hides deserialization risk.

Jul 8, 20265 min read
Application Security

Thymeleaf SSTI risk patterns: how a tab character bypassed a Java template sandbox

CVE-2026-40478 shows how a single tab character bypassed Thymeleaf's expression sandbox, turning misused templates into remote code execution.

Jul 8, 20266 min read
Application Security

Verifying webhook signatures correctly

Stripe gives you a 5-minute replay window and GitHub a raw-body HMAC — but most outages trace back to one bug: verifying JSON after it's been re-serialized.

Jul 8, 20267 min read
Application Security

Building Secure VS Code Extensions: A Developer's Guide

VS Code extensions run as trusted Node.js code with full disk and network access and no permission model to fall back on. Here is how to build one that does not become the next supply chain incident.

Jul 8, 20266 min read
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