AI Security
The Hidden Risks of AI Coding Assistants
A 2021 NYU study found 40% of Copilot-generated code contained exploitable bugs — and that's before counting leaked secrets or hallucinated packages.
Jul 8, 20266 min read
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A practical REST API hardening checklist
OWASP's 2023 API Security Top 10 still ranks broken object-level authorization as the #1 risk — here's a concrete checklist for authn, rate limiting, and input validation.
Jul 8, 20266 min read
DevSecOps
Rego for security engineers: a beginner's guide to OPA policy
Rego graduated from Styra research project to a CNCF-graduated standard in under five years. Here's how to write your first real OPA/Conftest policy.
Jul 8, 20267 min read
DevSecOps
Rego for intermediates: combining rules with AND/OR and writing actionable error messages
Rego has no `&&` or `||` operators — AND is implicit, OR means writing the same rule twice, and most teams miss both until a policy silently passes.
Jul 8, 20267 min read
Application Security
ReDoS in Python and FastAPI: how one regex takes down an event loop
CVE-2024-3772 let a single crafted email string trigger catastrophic backtracking in Pydantic's own validator — the exact code path every FastAPI request body runs through.
Jul 8, 20266 min read
Application Security
Secure conditional rendering in React and Next.js Server Components
A CVSS 10.0 React Server Components flaw, patched in December 2025, shows why {isAdmin && <Panel/>} isn't access control — the data ships to the client either way.
Jul 8, 20266 min read
Application Security
The three dimensions of Python static analysis, and where each one blinds itself
AST scanners, taint trackers, and type checkers each solve a different problem — and each has a documented blind spot that lets real bugs through untouched.
Jul 8, 20266 min read
Best Practices
Symmetric vs asymmetric file encryption in Python, done correctly
AES-GCM needs a unique 96-bit nonce every single time — reuse one under the same key and GCM's authentication guarantee collapses entirely, not just confidentiality.
Jul 8, 20267 min read
Supply Chain Attacks
Anatomy of a PyPI Compromise: How durabletask Got Hijacked in 35 Minutes
Three malicious durabletask releases hit PyPI in a 35-minute window in May 2026 — a maintainer-token theft, not a code review failure.
Jul 8, 20266 min read
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