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Cross-Site Request Forgery remains a top web vulnerability despite years of awareness. This guide covers the attack mechanics, why naive defences fail, and the complete modern prevention stack including CSRF tokens, SameSite cookies, and custom request headers.
SQL Injection Prevention: A Complete Developer Guide
Parameterised queries, ORM pitfalls, and blind SQLi detection patterns to protect your application data.
Secrets Management: The Twelve-Factor Approach and Beyond
How secrets end up in git history, why environment variables aren't enough, and how to use Vault and AWS Secrets Manager properly.
JWT Security: Common Mistakes That Lead to Authentication Bypass
The alg:none attack, weak secrets, JWKS spoofing, and how to validate JWTs correctly in Node and Python.
Dependency Confusion and Supply Chain Attacks: Protecting Your Build Pipeline
How dependency confusion attacks work against npm and pip, and how to configure private registries to block them.
Insecure Deserialization: Java Gadget Chains, Python Pickle, and Safe Alternatives
How insecure deserialization leads to remote code execution in Java and Python, and the safe alternatives for each.
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