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Best Practices

Security considerations for authenticating CLI tools through corporate proxies

Two 2026 curl CVEs show proxy credentials leaking across redirects and reused connections — plus why .npmrc still stores proxy passwords in plaintext.

Jul 12, 20266 min read
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Writing your first Jest unit tests for security-critical JavaScript

Jest ships to ~41M weekly npm installs with assertions, mocking, and coverage built in — here's how to structure your first tests around security logic.

Jul 12, 20267 min read
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Mocking APIs for secure testing: MSW and json-server for error and auth flows

MSW intercepts requests at the network layer; json-server spins up a fake REST API in one command. Neither should ever touch a real backend or real credentials.

Jul 12, 20267 min read
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Red team vs. blue team fundamentals: how to structure the exercise

MITRE ATT&CK went public in May 2015 to give red and blue teams a shared language — most organizations still run the two in total isolation.

Jul 12, 20266 min read
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Webhook security best practices: HMAC signing, replay protection, and IP allowlisting

Stripe gives webhook signatures a 5-minute tolerance window; GitHub signs with HMAC-SHA256. Here's how to build inbound and outbound webhooks that survive both.

Jul 11, 20267 min read
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Building a secure coding culture: training, champions, and incentives that stick

Verizon's 2025 DBIR found the human element in ~60% of breaches. A practical playbook for training, champions programs, and incentives that actually change developer behavior.

Jul 10, 20267 min read
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Running internal CTFs to build real security skills on engineering teams

picoCTF drew 39,000 players in 2019 across 160 countries — proof that gamified security training scales. Here's how to run the same model internally.

Jul 10, 20266 min read
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Auditing and pinning transitive Java dependencies with Maven and Gradle

Maven resolves version conflicts by nearest path, not highest version — one new direct dependency can silently reintroduce a patched CVE.

Jul 10, 20266 min read
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What CISA's Secure by Design Pledge Actually Requires

CISA's Secure by Design pledge asks 68+ vendors for measurable one-year progress on 7 goals. Here's what those goals mean for engineering teams.

Jul 10, 20266 min read
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