Open Source Security
Mobile app dependency vulnerability trends
Mobile apps now ship more third-party code than first-party. Safeguard's analysis breaks down where dependency vulnerabilities cluster and why.
Jul 14, 20267 min read
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XSS defaults and escape hatches: React, Vue, and Angular compared
All three major frameworks escape output by default, but each ships a named escape hatch that turns raw HTML back on — and only one sanitizes it automatically.
Jul 14, 20266 min read
Supply Chain Attacks
Typosquatting and dependency confusion: a defense guide
In 2021 one researcher got code execution inside 35+ companies for $130,000+ in bounties — without exploiting a single vulnerability. Here's how to close the gap.
Jul 14, 20266 min read
Open Source Security
Top open-source vulnerabilities in the npm ecosystem
Sonatype logged 512,000+ malicious npm packages in a year — a 156% jump. Here are the recurring vulnerability classes and how to catch them in CI.
Jul 14, 20267 min read
Open Source Security
Recurring vulnerability patterns in the PyPI ecosystem
PyYAML shipped two rounds of deserialization fixes in under two years — CVE-2017-18342 and CVE-2020-14343 — because the underlying pattern kept resurfacing.
Jul 14, 20266 min read
Open Source Security
The Java ecosystem's recurring vulnerability classes: deserialization, XXE, and JNDI injection
Log4Shell scored a 10.0 CVSS and Spring4Shell followed five months later — both traced back to two patterns Java has repeated for a decade.
Jul 14, 20266 min read
Open Source Security
Common Go module vulnerability patterns and how govulncheck helps
Two real CVEs in Go's path/filepath package and a growing SSRF problem in webhook handlers show why Go's safety guarantees don't cover application logic.
Jul 14, 20266 min read
Supply Chain Security
A four-surface framework for software supply-chain risk
Supply-chain attacks are up 650% year over year, per the SLSA framework — yet most teams still map risk to one surface instead of four.
Jul 14, 20267 min read
DevSecOps
The secure SDLC implementation guide: gates for every phase
NIST's SSDF names four practice groups, but most teams bolt security onto one phase. Here's how to gate design, code, build, and release instead.
Jul 14, 20267 min read
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