DevSecOps
Securing actions/setup-node in Your CI Pipeline
The actions/setup-node step looks harmless, but pinning, caching, and registry auth choices decide whether it becomes a supply chain foothold. Here is how to harden it.
Apr 17, 20266 min read
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Static Code Analysis Tools: The Open Source Options
Static code analysis tools open source teams actually use — Semgrep, CodeQL, Bandit, ESLint security plugins — and where each one's coverage runs out.
Apr 17, 20265 min read
Security
The Most Common Java Security Flaws and How to Fix Them
A practitioner's tour of the Java security flaws that actually break production systems — deserialization, injection, XXE, and the dependency risks that scanners miss.
Apr 17, 20267 min read
Buyer's Guides
Top Aqua Security Alternatives & Competitors
Comparing Safeguard and Aqua Security on scope, architecture, and compliance fit — runtime/CNAPP protection versus build-time software supply chain security.
Apr 17, 20267 min read
Security
Deep Code Analysis: What It Is and How It Finds Bugs Shallow Scans Miss
Deep code analysis reads how data flows through your program instead of matching patterns line by line. Here is what that buys you over grep-style linting.
Apr 17, 20266 min read
Application Security
Preventing broken access control in Express.js applications
Express.js ships with no built-in authorization layer, making broken access control easy to introduce and hard to catch with pattern-based scanners.
Apr 17, 20267 min read
Open Source
React Form Input Packages: react-hook-form, react-phone-input-2, country-state-city
The react-phone-input-2 npm package has half a million weekly downloads and no releases since 2021. A practical review of three form-layer dependencies and what each one really costs.
Apr 17, 20266 min read
AI Security
MCP Security
MCP is standardizing how AI agents call tools, and attackers are already exploiting tool poisoning, rug pulls, and shadowing. Here's what MCP security actually requires.
Apr 17, 20267 min read
AppSec
SAST Scans Explained: How Static Analysis Finds Code Flaws
SAST scans read your source code without running it, tracing untrusted data from input to sink to catch injection and other flaws before they ship.
Apr 17, 20266 min read
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