PyTorch Supply Chain Attack: Dev Guardrails Open-source registries remain hot targets. In September 2025, PyPI disclosed an attack campaign abusing GitHub Actions to exfiltrate PyPI tokens, and researchers flagged fresh malicious PyPI packages—reminders that ML stacks (including PyTorch projects) are squarely in scope. Lock everything with hashes, gate installs through a curated mirror, fail builds […]
CVE-2025-10585: Chrome Zero-Day Patch & Guardrails What Google shipped—and why this RCE matters (confirm SBOM impact) Google’s stable channel shipped 140.0.7339.185/.186 on Sep 17, 2025, addressing four bugs—most urgently CVE-2025-10585, a V8 type-confusion vulnerability exploited in the wild. Type confusion enables memory corruption → potential arbitrary code execution via crafted JS/Wasm, so treat this as
Git CVE-2025-48384: Safe Submodules in Practice This post is for engineers who live in Git: devs, SREs, CI owners. You’ll get the exact patched Git versions, how to check and enforce them across laptops and pipelines, plus guardrails to stop dangerous submodules from ever running code in your builds. TL;DR Explainer: CR/LF parsing → arbitrary
7 Best Fixes for Broken Access Control in Node.js Broken Access Control in Node.js is one of the most costly, sneaky issues a team can ship. It happens when users can act beyond their permissions—reading another tenant’s data, editing foreign records, downloading restricted files, or elevating roles. In this guide, we’ll demystify Broken Access Control
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Security Misconfiguration in Node.js — Risks, Examples & the 10 Best Fixes Security Misconfiguration in Node.js is one of the most common causes of avoidable incidents. From permissive CORS and verbose errors to weak session cookies and missing headers, tiny defaults can grow into big breaches. In this tutorial-style guide, you’ll learn how to find
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10 Best Ways to Prevent Sensitive Data Exposure in Node.js Sensitive Data Exposure in Node.js is one of those problems that sneaks in through small mistakes—an overly verbose error, a forgotten .env file pushed to Git, or a debug log that prints out access tokens. In this deep, hands-on guide you’ll learn practical steps (with
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Broken Authentication in Node.js: 10 Best Fixes with Code Broken Authentication in Node.js is one of the fastest ways an attacker can take over user accounts, pivot through your app, and drain value from your business. In practice, broken auth happens when login, session, token, or password-reset flows are weakly designed or poorly implemented. This
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10 Best Ways to Fix IDOR Vulnerability in Node.js Insecure Direct Object References (IDOR) happen when an app exposes a direct identifier (like /users/123) without verifying that the requester is allowed to access that object. In JavaScript backends this falls under Broken Access Control (OWASP A01). This guide shows how to detect, exploit, and fix
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CSRF Prevention in Node.js — A Practical, Copy-Ready Guide Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) is still one of the most reliable ways attackers trick browsers into performing actions the user never intended—like changing a password, transferring funds, or deleting data. In this long-form, code-rich guide, we’ll show the 10 Best CSRF Prevention in Node.js techniques you
XSS Prevention in Node.js—A Practical, Developer-First Guide Cross-site scripting (XSS) remains one of the most common web risks, and XSS Prevention in Node.js is a must-have skill for anyone building with Express, EJS, Pug, or Handlebars. In this guide, we’ll walk through 11 battle-tested techniques with copy-pasteable examples so you can harden your Node.js apps