AppSec
Free Website Vulnerability Scanners: What You Actually Get
Free scanners catch the obvious stuff — missing headers, expired TLS, a handful of known CVEs — but they stop well short of what a real security program needs.
Apr 4, 20265 min read
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What is Typosquatting
Typosquatting tricks developers into installing malicious lookalike packages. Learn how it works, real npm/PyPI attacks, and how to detect it.
Apr 4, 20267 min read
AppSec
Finding Vulnerabilities in Source Code: A Practical Method
A concrete, repeatable method for finding vulnerabilities in source code — combining static analysis, dependency scanning, and manual review without drowning your team in false positives.
Apr 4, 20267 min read
Best Practices
Buyer Guide: Software Supply Chain Security 2026
A senior-engineer buyer guide for software supply chain security in 2026: what the categories mean, what to test, and what to ignore in vendor pitches.
Apr 4, 20269 min read
Application Security
Attack Surface Management (ASM): best practices guide
A practical attack surface management best practices guide for software supply chains, covering SBOMs, base image hardening, CI/CD exposure, and a 90-day rollout plan.
Apr 4, 20268 min read
Vulnerabilities
Data Vulnerability Classes in Modern Applications
Most breaches trace back to a handful of recurring data vulnerability patterns — from unencrypted storage to broken access checks. Here's how to categorize and prioritize them.
Apr 3, 20266 min read
Incident Analysis
PowerSchool Breach: 62M Students, $2.85M Ransom, Cascading Extortion
PowerSchool's December 2024 breach exposed data on roughly 62M students and 9.5M teachers through a compromised support-portal credential and triggered downstream extortion of school districts months later.
Apr 3, 20266 min read
Regulatory Compliance
FedRAMP Continuous Monitoring Automation Playbook
FedRAMP 20x demands real-time ConMon. Here's how to automate monthly POA&M, vulnerability deviation, and SBOM attestation without a 20-person team.
Apr 3, 20265 min read
Open Source
rn-fetch-blob: Maintenance Status, Risks, and Alternatives
The rn-fetch-blob npm package hasn't shipped a release since 2020. Here's what that means for React Native apps still depending on it, and how to migrate to react-native-blob-util.
Apr 3, 20266 min read
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