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Dependabot Alternatives in 2026: A Buyer Rubric
A buyer rubric for evaluating Dependabot alternatives in 2026, covering update strategy, ecosystem coverage, reachability, and operational realities.
May 4, 20266 min read
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Heartbleed OpenSSL vulnerability retrospective
A decade later, Heartbleed (CVE-2014-0160) still explains why software supply chain visibility matters: severity, timeline, and remediation steps revisited.
May 4, 20267 min read
Agent Security
GitHub MCP Server Private-Repo Exfiltration: The May 2025 Invariant Labs Disclosure
Invariant Labs showed that a malicious GitHub Issue could hijack any MCP-connected agent into leaking private-repo contents. The architecture, not a bug, is the problem.
May 4, 20267 min read
Buyer's Guides
Aikido vs XBOW: independent AI pentesting benchmark results
There is no independently verified benchmark comparing Aikido and XBOW. Here is what each tool does and how Safeguard differs on supply chain security.
May 4, 20267 min read
DevSecOps
maven-assembly-plugin: A Security Guide
The maven-assembly-plugin bundles your project into distributable archives. It builds archives rather than extracting them, which shapes exactly which supply chain risks apply to it.
May 4, 20265 min read
Vulnerability Analysis
Shellshock Bash vulnerability retrospective
A decade-plus retrospective on Shellshock (CVE-2014-6271): how a Bash parsing flaw led to critical, KEV-listed remote code execution.
May 4, 20267 min read
Security Concepts
The Threat Modeling Process, Step by Step
Threat modeling answers four questions: what are we building, what can go wrong, what are we doing about it, and did we do enough? A concrete step-by-step process your team can run in an afternoon.
May 4, 20266 min read
Buyer's Guides
Aikido vs Checkmarx / GitHub Advanced Security for code s...
Aikido, Checkmarx, and GitHub Advanced Security all scan code. Here's how they differ from Safeguard on supply chain risk, and where each fits.
May 4, 20268 min read
Vulnerabilities
Stored XSS: Why Persistent Injection Hurts Most
Stored XSS saves the attacker's script server-side and serves it to everyone. Here is why persistent injection is the most damaging XSS variant and how to stop it.
May 4, 20266 min read
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