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Code Vulnerabilities and SQL Injections in Ruby on Rails

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Preventing SQL injections in Ruby (and other vulnerabilities)

Chris Chinchilla
February 12, 2021

This post’s topic is very straightforward: SQL injection, Ruby flavored. More specifically, how you can protect your Ruby application against SQL injections—and other common security threats. Ruby is a wonderful…

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What is “security as code” and how can it help you?

Omkar Hiremath
February 9, 2021

A couple of years ago, there were two major teams that worked on getting software built: the development team and the operations team. The development team created the software, and…

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Preventing SQL injections in Python (and other vulnerabilities)

Chris Chinchilla
February 9, 2021

Python is a wonderful language, ideal for beginners, and easy to scale up from starter projects to complex applications for data processing and serving dynamic web pages. But as you…

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OWASP top 10 vulnerabilities cheat sheet for CTOs

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OWASP Top 10 Cheat Sheet

Matthew
February 8, 2021

In recent times, hacks seem to be increasingly prevalent, not to mention severe. What’s more, it doesn’t matter whether you’re a small player or a big name corporation such as…

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Preventing SQL injections in Go (and other vulnerabilities)

Jonathan Hall
February 4, 2021

Go has taken the programming world by storm. When it recently passed its ten-year anniversary, estimates suggested as many as 2 million people use the language. As that number continues…

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Preventing SQL injections in Java (and other vulnerabilities)

Carlos Schults
January 21, 2021

One of the most common types of attack an application can suffer is what we call SQL injections. Since SQL injection attacks are both common and potentially devastating, it’s essential…

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The different types of cross-site scripting (XSS)

Omkar Hiremath
January 19, 2021

Cross-site scripting (XSS) is one of the most dangerous vulnerabilities in web applications. It is a client-side script injection technique that attackers can use to steal information or send malicious…

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How RASPs and WAFs can work together

Émile-Hugo
January 12, 2021

When it comes to security tooling, it can be difficult to tell different acronyms and the approaches they represent apart. In the case of application security for production applications, there…

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Remote code execution (RCE), explained: what it is and how to prevent it

Tsviatko Yovtchev
January 7, 2021

Remote code execution (RCE) is a class of software security flaws/vulnerabilities. RCE vulnerabilities will allow a malicious actor to execute any code of their choice on a remote machine over…

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Application security for GraphQL: how is it different?

Vladimir
December 21, 2020

GraphQL is one of the hottest topics in the API world right now. It provides an abstraction layer over more traditional HTTP communications, and has changed the way we build…

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