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Kubernetes Security

Designing Least-Privilege Kubernetes RBAC: A Practical Guide

CVE-2018-1002105 (CVSS 9.8) let an unauthenticated request reach cluster-admin through pod exec endpoints — most RBAC breaches since trace back to the same handful of over-broad bindings.

Jul 8, 20267 min read
Application Security

Secure JWT handling: algorithm confusion, expiry, and storage done right

A single unchecked `alg` header turned jsonwebtoken into a forgeable token in CVE-2015-9235 — here's how to close every hole RFC 8725 warns about.

Jul 8, 20266 min read
Application Security

Wiring dependency and SAST scanning into your JavaScript CLI workflow

npm audit has shipped for free since npm 6 in 2018, yet most JavaScript teams still find out about vulnerable dependencies in a Slack alert, not a failed commit.

Jul 8, 20267 min read
Best Practices

Getting AES right in Java: JCA/JCE mistakes that break your encryption

Call `Cipher.getInstance("AES")` in Java and you silently get ECB mode — no warning, no error, just plaintext patterns leaking through.

Jul 8, 20267 min read
Application Security

Java SecurityManager is gone: a practical migration guide

JEP 411 deprecated the Security Manager in JDK 17; JEP 486 disabled it outright in JDK 24, released March 18, 2025. Here's how to migrate before it's removed for good.

Jul 8, 20267 min read
Best Practices

Defensive Java: coding patterns that stop NullPointerExceptions from becoming outages

NPE has been Java's most common runtime exception since JDK 1.0 in 1996 — Optional, JSpecify annotations, and static analysis can turn most of them into compile-time errors.

Jul 8, 20267 min read
Application Security

Bytecode vs. source analysis: static analysis techniques for Java and Kotlin

SpotBugs scans compiled .class files for 400+ bug patterns; Semgrep parses source directly. Neither alone would have caught CVE-2015-7501 fast enough.

Jul 8, 20265 min read
Compliance & Frameworks

Japan METI's SBOM Guidance: What Software Vendors Need to Know

METI's SBOM guidance has no legal teeth, yet Ver. 2.0 already shapes procurement at Japan's largest manufacturers and critical-infrastructure buyers.

Jul 8, 20267 min read
Best Practices

Installing and Verifying Java on macOS Securely

A SHA-256 checksum only proves a JDK download wasn't corrupted in transit — it takes a GPG signature check to prove it actually came from the vendor you trust.

Jul 8, 20266 min read

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