Vulnerability Analysis
What is Broken Authentication
Broken authentication lets attackers assume another user's identity via credential stuffing, forged tokens, or auth-bypass CVEs like Fortinet's CVE-2022-40684.
Mar 23, 20266 min read
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STIG compliance scanning for hardened/Chainguard containe...
Chainguard images have near-zero CVEs, but shell-based scanners like Anchore flag them as STIG non-compliant. Here is why, and how to fix it.
Mar 23, 20267 min read
SecOps
How to Fix Vulnerabilities: A Practical Workflow
A practical, repeatable workflow for how to fix vulnerabilities once a scanner finds them — triage, verify, patch, and confirm — instead of treating every finding as equally urgent.
Mar 23, 20265 min read
Supply Chain
The boltdb-go Backdoor: A Three-Year Go Module Mirror Persistence
A typosquat of boltdb hid a Go module mirror cache-poisoning attack for three years before Socket researchers disclosed it on January 30, 2025.
Mar 23, 20266 min read
Vulnerability Analysis
What Are Cryptographic Failures
Cryptographic failures are OWASP's #2 Top 10 risk — weak, missing, or broken encryption. See real breaches, causes, and how to detect and fix them.
Mar 23, 20267 min read
Incident Analysis
UnitedHealth Change Healthcare: 190 Million Update and the Long Tail
In January 2025 UnitedHealth revised the Change Healthcare breach count to 190 million people, the largest HIPAA breach in US history. We unpack what changed and the supply-chain lessons that still apply.
Mar 23, 20267 min read
Compliance
DoD Risk Management Framework (RMF) mapping for container...
How DoD RMF container control mapping actually works, where Anchore's scan-first approach leaves manual crosswalk work for compliance teams, and how Safeguard automates NIST 800-53 evidence.
Mar 23, 20268 min read
Industry Analysis
2025 Bug Bounty Program Reforms: What Changed
From Microsoft's AI bounty expansion to the EU CRA's good-faith researcher protections, bug bounty rules of engagement shifted meaningfully in early 2025.
Mar 22, 20265 min read
Incident Analysis
CDK Global BlackSuit Ransomware: 15,000 Dealerships Offline for 2 Weeks
BlackSuit ransomware encrypted CDK Global's dealer-management cloud on June 18-19, 2024, crippling roughly 15,000 North American auto dealerships and triggering a reported $25M ransom payment.
Mar 22, 20266 min read
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