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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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Top 10 Python security best practices

Don Roche
January 16, 2020

On the sleepy island of Gozo, security isn’t a concern. Tourists can leave their bags on the beach and go off on an adventure without worrying that their belongings will…

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Developer security best practices: how to validate input data in Python

Boris
September 17, 2019

If you’re building an application that accepts user or third-party input, a crucial consideration for security is ensuring that you properly validate that input. You want to make sure that…

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How I switched from Ruby to Python

Benoit
January 30, 2019

This article is a personal experience shared by Benoit, Sqreen’s first engineer who worked on the Ruby agent and on the Python backend. Ruby, a love story Back in 2008…

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PyParis 2018

Janis
December 6, 2018

At Sqreen we try to attend any conference that is related to our tech stack. To learn and interact, and, sometimes, to present. This year at PyParis 2018 we did…

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Giving a voice to Jira

Oscar Baracos
December 3, 2018

The problem What if you could talk to Jira to create a ticket instead of having to interrupt what you’re doing to open a new tab, and painstakingly scroll through…

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Context information storage for asyncio

Vivien
February 26, 2018

At Sqreen, we are building an agent based on dynamic instrumentation. It detects security incidents from inside an application (injections, cross-site scripting etc.) and allows users to configure actions (blocking…

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Stop using pycrypto. Use pycryptodome instead

Paul
March 23, 2017

As we are still seeing a lot of applications depending on the Python Cryptography Toolkit (aka pycrypto) to manage their cryptography, this is a quick reminder to stop using it. The vulnerability…

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Interview: Claudiu Popa – Using Pylint for Python Static Analysis

Paul
March 10, 2017

We are excited to be launching a new series of interviews. The idea is to interview developers and security specialists that make the ecosystem a better place. Today, I’m sitting…

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Behind the Scenes: Building a Dynamic Instrumentation Agent for Python

Boris
January 24, 2017

TL;DR Building a Python Dynamic Instrumentation Agent is no easy task. At Sqreen we’re building an agent based on dynamic instrumentation in order to detect and block security issues inside…

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