Vulnerability Guides
Mass Assignment Vulnerability: How to Prevent It
Mass assignment lets attackers set fields you never meant to expose — like isAdmin or accountBalance — by adding them to a request body. Here is the fix.
Jul 2, 20265 min read
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Building a Multi-Cloud Security Strategy That Actually Scales
A practical framework for securing AWS, Azure, and GCP together — the pillars, the provider differences that trip teams up, and how to unify controls with policy-as-code.
Jul 2, 20265 min read
Security Guides
The npm Supply Chain Security Guide
How the npm supply chain actually gets attacked — install scripts, maintainer takeovers, typosquatting, and dependency confusion — and a phased program to defend it from developer laptop to production.
Jul 2, 20265 min read
Security Guides
SSRF Prevention in Go: Blocking Metadata, Redirects, and DNS Rebinding
A single unvalidated URL passed to net/http can hand an attacker your cloud metadata credentials. Here's how SSRF actually works against Go services — and the DialContext-level defense that stops it.
Jul 2, 20265 min read
AI Security
What Is Agentic Development Security?
When an AI agent can read your repo, run commands, open pull requests, and call external tools on its own, the security model shifts from reviewing code to governing an actor. Here is what agentic development security means and why it is different.
Jul 2, 20266 min read
Vulnerability Guides
YAML Injection: How It Happens and How to Prevent It
YAML looks like a harmless config format, but the wrong parser call turns a config file into a code-execution engine. Here's how YAML deserialization attacks work and how to parse safely.
Jul 2, 20265 min read
Security Guides
Angular Security Best Practices: Trusting the Sanitizer, Not Bypassing It
Angular sanitizes bindings by default — until a developer calls bypassSecurityTrustHtml. Here is how Angular's security model works and where teams break it.
Jul 2, 20265 min read
Vulnerability Analysis
Apache Struts (CVE-2017-5638) Explained: The OGNL Header That Breached Equifax
CVE-2017-5638 let attackers run commands on Apache Struts 2 servers through a crafted Content-Type header. It is the unpatched flaw behind the Equifax breach. Here is the OGNL mechanism.
Jul 2, 20265 min read
FAQ
Application Security FAQ: A 2026 Guide
Clear answers to common application security questions in 2026 — what AppSec covers, how SAST, DAST, and SCA differ, the role of the OWASP Top 10, and how to prioritize fixes.
Jul 2, 20266 min read
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