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Password Security Storage: Hashing Done Right
Password security storage still gets built wrong in 2024 — here's what a correct implementation looks like, from algorithm choice to salt handling to migration.
Sep 17, 20245 min read
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SQL Injection: How It Works and How It's Actually Tested
A defender's walkthrough of how SQL injection works and how security testers actually verify it in a controlled, authorized assessment — not a how-to-attack guide.
Sep 4, 20245 min read
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A CSRF Example: Full Attack Walkthrough
A concrete csrf example — a bank transfer form with no anti-forgery token — showing exactly how a forged request rides in on a victim's session and what stops it.
Sep 3, 20245 min read
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XSS Scripting Attacks: A Refresher for Engineers
XSS scripting attacks still make the OWASP Top 10 more than two decades after they were first documented, mostly because the fix is context-dependent and easy to get almost-right.
Aug 21, 20245 min read
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The Moq Vulnerability: What Happened and What to Do
The Moq incident wasn't a classic CVE — it was a popular .NET mocking library quietly bundling a data-collection dependency in a routine version bump, and it's a case study in why supply-chain monitoring has to watch behavior, not just version numbers.
Aug 15, 20245 min read
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Adobe Flash's End of Life: Security Lessons From a Decade of Patching
Adobe Flash security was a running joke in the industry for a decade before its 2020 end-of-life — the real lesson wasn't Flash itself, it was how long a critical dependency can outlive its own security model.
Aug 15, 20245 min read
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CVE-2020-15250: The JUnit Temp File Vulnerability
CVE-2020-15250 shows how a test-only utility class in JUnit 4 created world-readable temp files on Unix systems, and why it still shows up in scans of projects that never touched production code paths.
Aug 6, 20244 min read
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What Is a CSRF Token, and How Does It Stop CSRF?
A CSRF token is a random, per-session value a server requires on state-changing requests so a malicious site can't forge one on a logged-in user's behalf.
Jul 22, 20245 min read
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The SnakeYAML Deserialization Vulnerability, Explained
SnakeYAML's default Constructor could instantiate arbitrary Java classes from YAML input — CVE-2022-1471 turned a config-parsing library into a remote code execution path.
Jun 19, 20245 min read
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