How I Secured WordPress Media Files by Building My Own Upload Restriction Plugin
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Real-Time Anomaly Detection Engine for a Cloud Storage Platform
I built a Python daemon that watches incoming HTTP traffic in real time, learns what "normal" looks like, and automatically blocks attackers using Lin…
Silk Typhoon Extradition: State-Sponsored APT Operator Accountability & Persistence TTPs
Originally published on satyamrastogi.com Xu Zewei's extradition marks rare accountability for state-sponsored operators. Analysis of Silk Typhoon's t…
Why AI Is Breaking Your API Security Model (And Nobody on Your Team Notices)
Your API gateway is lying to you. While you’ve been perfecting your OAuth flow and rate-limiting on the front door, AI has been busy building back doo…
Every scanner checks what exists. Nobody checks what's missing
When cloud resources are deleted, the references to them persist — in IAM policies, event triggers, compute configs, and trust relationships. These or…
Thinking Like an Attacker: The Airbags and Seatbelts of Smart Contract Security
In our last post, we built a mathematical proving ground using Foundry . We used stateful fuzzing to prove that the rules of our MilestoneCrowdfundUpg…
5 Critical Security Vulnerabilities in Python APIs (and How to Fix Them in Production)
Introduction Most API security issues are not caused by complex attacks—they come from simple mistakes made during development. In production systems,…
How to Build a Production-Ready Secure Python API (JWT, Rate Limiting, and Caching)
Introduction Most Python APIs work perfectly in development—and fail in production. The issue is rarely functionality. It’s missing security and resil…
Guardrails in AI: Keeping LLMs Safe
🤔 Imagine asking an AI agent to generate a database query… and it returns something wrong — or worse, unsafe. The problem isn’t just intelligence. It’…
Responsible Disclosure Is a Governance Problem, Not an Ethics Problem
The ethics are fine. The architecture is broken. For years, the security industry has treated responsible disclosure as a moral test: are you a "good"…
🚀 OathMesh v1.0.0-rc.1: Zero-Trust API Keys That Survive the Real World
Replacing static API keys with 5-minute, self-destructing Ed25519 tokens sounds great—until your Redis node dies, NTP drifts, or you realize you have …
(The Connection) WhatsApp Bridge
The Catalyst: The Interface Is the Attack Surface WhatsApp is the ultimate low-friction interface: it is on every phone, it is end-to-end encrypted in…
(The Voice) Multilingual Layer
The Catalyst: One Language, Many Attack Surfaces The comfortable fiction is: “We wrote English rules, so the model is safe.” The truth: LLMs are multi…
How I Built a Real-Time DDoS Detection Engine from Scratch
Introduction Imagine you run a cloud storage platform. Thousands of users upload files, share documents, and collaborate every day. Then one morning, …
Two Types of npm Supply Chain Attack: What Catches Each
On April 23, 2026, @bitwarden/cli was compromised as part of the ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign . Malicious code was injected into version 20…
#GuardianClaw — The AI That Watches Your AI 🛡️
This is a submission for the OpenClaw Challenge . 🚨 The Problem Nobody Is Solving Modern agent systems like OpenClaw can: execute shell commands insta…
Mobile App Security Audit Playbook: What US Enterprise CTOs Need to Check Before Launch 2026
This piece was written for enterprise technology leaders and originally published on the Wednesday Solutions mobile development blog . Wednesday is a …
SLSA Deep Dive: Securing the Supply Chain Using Verifiable Levels
Introduction When I first investigated the SolarWinds incident, one technical detail absolutely floored me. The attackers planted malware called SUNSP…
Grooming operates over time. Here's how behavioral detection tracks it.
Every system designed to detect child grooming has the same problem: it's looking at the wrong unit of analysis. Grooming doesn't happen in a message.…
Inside SENTINEL: How 13 Microservices Detect Child Grooming by Behavior, Not Keywords
Keyword filters are a solved problem — solved by predators. They learned years ago to spell things differently, avoid flagged words, and simply groom …
JSON Web Tokens (JWT): Deep Dive into Design, Security Risks and Real-World Failures
JWT (JSON Web Tokens) have become a default choice for authentication and authorisation in modern systems. They are widely adopted because they are: S…
The AI Tool That Breached Vercel: A Case Study in Agent Trust Debt
Last week, Vercel disclosed a security incident that quietly rewrote the threat model for every engineering organization deploying AI tools. The breac…
Actionable Packages — paqueteAction: AWS Account Hardening Playbook
🌟 The Core Concept paqueteAction is a high-performance CloudFormation suite designed to automate AWS hardening. Covering Identity Center, Security Hub…
# Building a Production-Ready AI Governance Stack (Part 3/3)
This is Part 3 of a three-part series on AI governance architecture. In Part 1, we explored the negative proof problem why signed receipts can't prove…
Escaping Managed Hosting: What Happened When We Migrated a WooCommerce Site to a VPS (And Got Attacked)
Escaping Managed Hosting: What Happened When We Migrated a WooCommerce Site to a VPS (And Got Attacked) Managed WordPress hosting sounds like a great …
Azure Monitor: Deployment and Configuration
Introduction Azure Monitor is a powerful cloud-based monitoring solution that provides full visibility into the performance, health, and activity of a…
Your Encrypted App Has a Leak. It's Called Metadata.
In 2014, General Michael Hayden — former director of both the NSA and the CIA — made a remark that should have ended the "I use an encrypted app so I'…
Agent Identity Is the New Control Plane. Enterprise Security Just Figured It Out.
Two articles dropped today that, taken together, tell a very clear story about where agentic commerce is headed. The Infrastructure Is Done Insignia B…
I benchmarked 10 LLMs on slopsquatting — up to 87% installed fake packages
TL;DR — I ran 10 LLMs (Claude Haiku/Sonnet/Opus 4.x, GPT-5.4, GPT-5.4-mini, GPT-5.3-codex, GPT-5.2, local Ollama llama3.2:3b / qwen2.5-coder:7b / phi4…
Things Developers Get Wrong About the Backend for Frontend Pattern
Since I published my overview of the Backend for Frontend (BFF) pattern , the questions I've received fall into surprisingly consistent patterns. The …