Industry Analysis
Unsafe Consumption of Third-Party APIs
Third-party APIs get trusted more than user input ever would — and attackers know it. Real breaches from Polyfill.io to 3CX show why that trust is misplaced.
Jul 11, 20267 min read
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Best attack surface management (ASM) tools
A practical buyer's guide comparing top attack surface management tools and ASM platforms, with honest strengths, limitations, and evaluation criteria.
Jul 11, 20268 min read
Best Practices
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
Application Security
The most common C++ vulnerability classes, and the tooling that catches them
Memory-safety bugs account for roughly 70% of high-severity CVEs in large C/C++ codebases at Microsoft and Google. Here's why, and what actually stops them.
Jul 11, 20267 min read
Cloud Security
Policy-as-code for Terraform: testing before you ever run apply
Checkov, OPA, and tflint each catch different Terraform mistakes — chained into CI before apply, they turn a review comment into a hard gate.
Jul 11, 20266 min read
DevSecOps
Where Security Gates Belong in Your CI/CD Pipeline
23.8 million secrets leaked on public GitHub in 2024 alone. The fix isn't more scanners — it's putting the right gate at the right stage and tuning out the noise.
Jul 11, 20267 min read
Container Security
Hardening PHP-FPM and Apache Container Images
PHP containers ship with defaults built for compatibility, not security. Opcache settings, disabled functions, and process ownership close the gaps.
Jul 11, 20266 min read
Application Security
Building an authenticated, TLS-secured WebSocket server in Python
WebSockets skip same-origin checks by default — CWE-1385 exists because of it. Here's how to build one in Python with origin checks, TLS, and rate limits.
Jul 11, 20266 min read
Application Security
Robust URL Validation in Python: Stopping SSRF and Open Redirects
One misparsed IP string cost Capital One 106 million records. Here's how to validate URLs in Python without repeating that mistake.
Jul 11, 20266 min read
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