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What Is VAPT? A Practical Guide to Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing

VAPT combines automated vulnerability assessment with hands-on penetration testing. Here is what each half actually does and how to run VAPT that finds real risk.

Jan 28, 20256 min read
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The xss npm Package: Sanitizing HTML Input Correctly

The xss npm package is a whitelist-based HTML sanitizer for Node and the browser. It works well — when you sanitize in the right place, with the right whitelist, for the right output context.

Jan 27, 20257 min read
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CVE-2023-4863: The libwebp Zero-Day That Hit Chrome and More

CVE-2023-4863 was a heap buffer overflow in libwebp's Huffman decoding that was exploited as a zero-day in the wild — and because libwebp sits inside Chrome, Firefox, and countless Electron apps, one library bug became an ecosystem-wide emergency patch.

Jan 22, 20256 min read
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Vuln Scan Basics: How Vulnerability Scanning Actually Works

What a vuln scan is, the main scanner types, how to read a report without drowning in noise, and how to fit scanning into a development pipeline.

Jan 21, 20256 min read
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Define SCA: What Software Composition Analysis Actually Means

To define SCA: it's the practice of identifying every open-source component in your software and checking each for known vulnerabilities, license risk, and staleness.

Jan 19, 20255 min read
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xercesImpl: XXE Risks in Java XML Parsing and How to Configure It

The xercesImpl Maven artifact turns up transitively in thousands of Java builds. Here is its real CVE history, why XXE is your configuration's fault, and the hardening block to paste.

Jan 16, 20256 min read
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SAST Meaning and Full Form: Static Application Security Testing Explained

SAST stands for Static Application Security Testing — analyzing source code for vulnerabilities without running it. Here is what the term means, how it works, and where it fits alongside DAST and SCA.

Oct 8, 20246 min read
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Software Security Testing: A Practitioner's Overview

Software security testing spans static analysis, dynamic testing, dependency scanning, and manual review — a practical map of which method catches what, written for people who actually run these programs.

Sep 30, 20245 min read
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SAST Full Form and What It Actually Tests

SAST stands for static application security testing — analyzing source code without running it. Here's exactly what it catches, what it misses, and how it fits a pipeline.

Aug 6, 20245 min read
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