Application Security
A practical guide to bug bounty hunting
HackerOne alone has paid hackers over $300M since 2012, but most new researchers earn nothing — duplicates, not skill gaps, are the top reason first reports fail.
Jul 7, 20267 min read
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Personal Access Token Security Best Practices
Leaked personal access tokens have driven major supply chain breaches. Here's why PATs are risky, real incidents, and how scoping, rotation, and detection fix it.
Jul 7, 20266 min read
Industry Analysis
Hardcoded Secrets in Source Code: Detection and Remediation
Hardcoded secrets in source code caused breaches at Toyota, Uber, and Samsung. Here's why developers keep doing it, how attackers exploit it, and how to fix it.
Jul 7, 20268 min read
DevSecOps
Why NVD alone is not enough: the case for multi-source vulnerability intelligence
NIST now fully enriches a fraction of CVEs — on April 15, 2026 it moved to a triage model that leaves most of 2025's 48,185 published CVEs without a timely severity score.
Jul 7, 20267 min read
AI Security
What agentic coding environments reveal about developer risk
Snyk analyzed nearly 10,000 real developer environments and found 43% run 2+ AI coding tools at once — with MCP servers and skills quietly widening the attack surface.
Jul 7, 20267 min read
DevSecOps
What a good AI remediation agent needs to fix dependencies safely
Snyk's CLI remediation agent pushed fix rates from 23% to 45% with an intelligence layer — but the harder problem is making an agent developers trust to touch their lockfile unsupervised.
Jul 7, 20266 min read
Open Source Security
Should open source maintainers get free enterprise security tooling?
80-90% of the average codebase is open source, built largely by unpaid maintainers — Snyk's year-old maintainer program now covers 60+ projects for free.
Jul 7, 20266 min read
AI Security
Securing MCP integrations for enterprise AI assistants
Claude's May 2026 enterprise and desktop expansion put MCP tool calls in front of compliance teams and IDEs alike — governance can no longer be an afterthought.
Jul 7, 20268 min read
Open Source Security
Protestware via prompt injection: when maintainers target AI agents
jqwik 1.10.0 shipped a hidden instruction telling AI coding agents to delete their own tests, then erased it from the terminal with ANSI codes — protestware built for agents, not humans.
Jul 7, 20267 min read
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