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AppSec anti-patterns to eliminate
23.8M secrets leaked on public GitHub in 2024 alone. Here are the AppSec anti-patterns behind numbers like that — and the concrete practices that replace them.
Jul 14, 20266 min read
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Securing Your Ruby Dev Environment on macOS: rbenv, rvm, and Checksums
60 malicious RubyGems downloaded ~275,000 times went undetected for years — here's how to actually verify what rbenv or rvm installs on your Mac.
Jul 13, 20265 min read
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Disaster recovery testing methodologies compared
DR plans fail when they're never really tested. Here's how tabletop, simulation, parallel, and full interruption tests differ — and when each is worth the risk.
Jul 13, 20266 min read
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Disaster recovery testing: a practical guide to tabletop, failover, and RTO/RPO drills
GitLab's 2017 outage revealed 5 backup mechanisms had silently failed for weeks — recovery took 18 hours because no one had ever test-restored one.
Jul 13, 20266 min read
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Red team vs. blue team fundamentals: how to structure the exercise
MITRE ATT&CK went public in May 2015 to give red and blue teams a shared language — most organizations still run the two in total isolation.
Jul 12, 20266 min read
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Mocking APIs for secure testing: MSW and json-server for error and auth flows
MSW intercepts requests at the network layer; json-server spins up a fake REST API in one command. Neither should ever touch a real backend or real credentials.
Jul 12, 20267 min read
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Writing your first Jest unit tests for security-critical JavaScript
Jest ships to ~41M weekly npm installs with assertions, mocking, and coverage built in — here's how to structure your first tests around security logic.
Jul 12, 20267 min read
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Security considerations for authenticating CLI tools through corporate proxies
Two 2026 curl CVEs show proxy credentials leaking across redirects and reused connections — plus why .npmrc still stores proxy passwords in plaintext.
Jul 12, 20266 min read
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Webhook security best practices: HMAC signing, replay protection, and IP allowlisting
Stripe gives webhook signatures a 5-minute tolerance window; GitHub signs with HMAC-SHA256. Here's how to build inbound and outbound webhooks that survive both.
Jul 11, 20267 min read
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