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Some of the most dangerous vulnerabilities in modern web apps are the default features left switched on where they were never meant to be reachable. The first entry in our Findings from the AP series looks at an exposed actuator endpoint. On paper, this finding started the same…
Product Name: Package UpSnap Vulnerability: Authenticated Remote Code Execution in UpSnap Vulnerable Version:<= 5.3.5 CVE: CVE-2026-49481 On 26/05/2026, a security researcher at Astra Security found a critical Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability in UpSnap, a web-based…
Key Takeaways You ship to production every day while your last pentest happened 11 months ago. Just say that sentence out loud, and we ought to rest our entire case of autonomous pentesting for SaaS companies right there. Everything below is just the supporting evidence. The…
Ask any security engineer what they actually think about their vulnerability scanner, and you will get a version of the same answer. They trust maybe 20% of what shows up in the patching queue. The rest gets a suspicious glance, and a slow death in a backlog. That is the real…
Most engineering teams believe they solved secret scanning the day they flipped on GitHub’s default toggle, but the game doesn’t stop there. In many cases, an overlooked leak can spiral into a severe data breach, especially when an LLM is connected to sensitive data, internal…
Have you ever tried to answer “Is this container safe to run?” If yes, then you know how tricky that question is. Securing containers is one of the toughest jobs in security, and hunting vulnerabilities across an estate of them gives security folks the same vibe as hunting in…
Somewhere right now, someone is spinning up a fresh Kubernetes cluster, feeling pretty good with a basic firewall, skimmed a hardening guide, and maybe even applied a few CIS benchmarks. What could possibly go wrong? Roughly 18 minutes. That’s the average time before a newly…
Ever wonder why a codebase that passes every test in CI still shows up in a breach report six months later? Simply put, tests check whether code works. They rarely check whether code can be abused. Say you build a house with a solid lock on the front door but leave a window…
Key Takeaways The shift to cloud-native infra has broken the traditional perimeter security model. Modern cloud environments are dynamic, heavily distributed, and identity-driven, creating security challenges that conventional security tools were never built to address…
You know the drill. Two of you, maybe three, covering a product that a fifty-person engineering org reshapes daily. Too much surface, too few hands, and one manual pentest a year, assuming the budget survives Q3. That’s the reality autonomous pentesting for lean security teams…
Key Takeaways: Security findings are often forgotten in engineering queues. When a pentest report is added to Jira, it is assigned a low priority and remains in the backlog while new features, bug fixes, and refactorings are prioritized. Developers check the ticket and close it…
Key Takeaways: Run any mature scanner against a container image you built yesterday, and you will likely see dozens — sometimes hundreds — of CVEs. Most of them sit in code you never wrote. That is the uncomfortable reality container image scanning exists to deal with: modern…
Key Takeaways: If there’s one thing all of us can agree about modern security, it is that penetration testing is no longer a once-a-year activity. Modern attack surfaces do not stay still. New code ships faster, cloud infrastructure is constantly changing, and APIs are…
Key Takeaways Credentialed scanning (also called authenticated vulnerability scanning) is a vulnerability scan that logs into the target system with valid credentials and inspects it from the inside. Instead of poking at open ports and guessing versions from banners, a…
Key Takeaways: Most cloud breaches begin with a configuration error the customer made. Gartner projected that through 2025, 99% of cloud security failures would be the customer’s responsibility, caused by misconfigured identity and access management, exposed storage, and…
Key Takeaways From inchoate brainstorming sessions in the halls of Dartmouth College to a panoply of funding springs and winters, AI has made its way into the tech stack of not just almost every enterprise but also every household. This, though music to the ears of an AI…
Key Takeaways Picture your last security tool purchase. You compared a few vendors, picked the one with the slickest demo, wired it into your pipeline, and moved on. Six months later, you own four scanners that overlap, flood Slack with alerts nobody triages, and somehow still…
A practical buyer’s guide for developers, AppSec engineers, and engineering managers choosing where to scan, what to scan, and which tool actually fits. Key Takeaways Code security scan tools exist to catch the risk you wrote in a file yourself…before it’s shipped, and in 2026…
