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SAST Tools: A Shortlist Worth Evaluating
A working sast tools list should separate what free sast tools handle well from what only becomes worthwhile once you're paying for language coverage, tuning, and CI/CD depth.
Jan 14, 20265 min read
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The OWASP Top 10: A Quick Reference for 2026
A working reference to the OWASP Top10 categories, what each one covers in plain terms, and which scanner type actually catches it.
Jan 14, 20265 min read
Vulnerability Analysis
CurveBall Windows CryptoAPI spoofing flaw (CVE-2020-0601)
CVE-2020-0601 (CurveBall) let attackers spoof trusted certificates via a Windows CryptoAPI flaw. Impact, timeline, and remediation steps inside.
Jan 14, 20268 min read
AI Security
Enforcing container compliance with Azure Policy
How Azure Policy enforces container compliance on AKS—registry restriction, regulatory mapping, and where admission-time policy alone falls short.
Jan 14, 20268 min read
Vulnerability Analysis
Log4j JDBC Appender RCE (CVE-2021-44832)
CVE-2021-44832 lets attackers with logging-config write access achieve RCE via Log4j2's JDBC Appender — and Log4Shell fixes alone don't stop it.
Jan 14, 20267 min read
Cloud Security
Using Privileged Identity Management for just-in-time Azu...
A practical guide to using Azure conditional access PIM for just-in-time role activation, reducing standing privileges and strengthening least-privilege access.
Jan 14, 20268 min read
Vulnerability Analysis
Text4Shell Apache Commons Text RCE (CVE-2022-42889)
A deep dive into CVE-2022-42889 (Text4Shell): the Apache Commons Text RCE, its narrower real-world exploitability versus Log4Shell, and how to remediate it.
Jan 14, 20267 min read
Cloud Security
Preventing and detecting Azure service principal credenti...
How Azure service principal secrets leak through repos, pipelines, and IaC state files — and the detection, scoping, and rotation practices that stop a leak from becoming a breach.
Jan 14, 20267 min read
Incident Analysis
tj-actions/changed-files Compromise: What Happened
A March 2025 GitHub Action compromise rewrote every tagged version to leak secrets. Here is the timeline, attack chain, and what repos need to change.
Jan 14, 20267 min read
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