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The MIT License, Summarized: What It Permits and Requires
A plain-English MIT license summary: the one condition it imposes, the freedoms it grants, and the compliance step teams still manage to miss.
Mar 20, 20265 min read
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Ascension Health Black Basta Ransomware: 5.6M Patients Impacted
Black Basta encrypted Ascension's network on May 8, 2024 via a malicious file downloaded by an employee, diverting ambulances across 140 hospitals and ultimately notifying 5.6 million patients.
Mar 20, 20266 min read
SecOps
Tools in Cyber Security: A Starter Map by Category
The tools in cyber security span network defense, application security, identity, and data protection, and the fastest way to get oriented is a map by category rather than a vendor list.
Mar 20, 20265 min read
Open Source
npm run: How Scripts Work and How to Use Them Safely
npm run executes the scripts defined in your package.json. Here is how it resolves commands, the lifecycle hooks that run automatically, and the supply-chain risks to watch.
Mar 20, 20266 min read
Security
Nginx and CVE-2023-44487: How to Fix HTTP/2 Rapid Reset
CVE-2023-44487, the HTTP/2 Rapid Reset attack, is a protocol-level DoS. Nginx resists it with default settings, but a loose keepalive config can still be abused. Here's the fix.
Mar 20, 20266 min read
DevSecOps
Log4j Maven Dependency: How to Find, Fix, and Pin It Safely
A practical guide to the Log4j Maven dependency: how to detect log4j-core in your tree, why 2.17.1 is the version to target, and how to pin it for good.
Mar 20, 20265 min read
Vulnerability Analysis
SonicWall SMA 1000 Zero-Day: CVE-2025-23006 Pre-Auth RCE
SonicWall disclosed CVE-2025-23006, a critical deserialization vulnerability in its SMA 1000 series gateways that was actively exploited as a zero-day before patches were available.
Mar 20, 20265 min read
Industry Analysis
Retail POS Supply Chain Security in 2026
Retail point-of-sale environments combine PCI scope, vendor-managed software, and thousands of physical endpoints. Here is the 2026 supply chain baseline that actually works at scale.
Mar 20, 20266 min read
AppSec
CVE-2023-4863: The libwebp Zero-Day That Hit Chrome and More
CVE-2023-4863 was a heap buffer overflow in libwebp's Huffman decoding that was exploited as a zero-day in the wild — and because libwebp sits inside Chrome, Firefox, and countless Electron apps, one library bug became an ecosystem-wide emergency patch.
Mar 20, 20266 min read
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