Just finished building a security audit toolJust finished building a security audit tool It started because I kept running my site through Mozilla's Observatory and wanted to understand exactly how it scored things. If you read their docs, they explain how the scoring blocks break down and if you dig deeper, how the individual bits inside those blocks are scored too. So I reflected that same scoring into my own tool. Then came the grind: run my site through Observatory, change one thing, test again, over and over, until my scores matched theirs section by section. Once it lined up with Mozilla, I had a scoring chart that mirrored Observatory for every parameter. From there I started building depth into it, DNS, mail-spoofing protection (SPF/DMARC/DKIM), known software vulnerabilities via the CVE database, the stuff Observatory doesn't touch. So now it does everything Observatory does, plus a fair bit more. I've tested it against 200 of the internet's biggest sites and CMS platforms to make sure it holds up, real varying scores,
Why is one WNBA team calling in national security experts?The WNBA's popularity has risen in recent years, but so have threats and abuse directed at its players. One team is taking a novel approach to this, by partnering with national security specialists.
Six months into the Iran war, a new Gulf security architecture is emergingGulf states are building overlapping partnerships that complement, rather than replace, the US security role.
The Social Security trust fund is running out, and yet it's not a top campaign issueLimited public discussion of the trust fund's shortfall has experts worried that most Americans don't fully understand the problems Social Security faces — let alone be able to weigh in on solutions.
Excelerate Energy Releases 2025 Sustainability Report, Highlighting Progress in Energy Security and Responsible GrowthExcelerate Energy, Inc. (the "Company" or "Excelerate") (NYSE: EE) today announced the publication of its 2025 Sustainability Report, highlighting the Company’s efforts to strengthen energy security, ...
What’s new in Microsoft Security: August 2026This month’s updates provide new capabilities to help organizations gain insights into agent activity, expand security coverage across supported environments, and enhance security management across ...
Democratic Senators Ask Homeland Security for Details About Idled PlanesThe request follows a New York Times story, which revealed that Homeland Security had spent $464 million on used jets that rarely fly.
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Ask HN: What a fullstack dev should know about security?Hi all,I am asked to help a fullstack dev team (Spring+Angular) to skill up in term of security.I am skeptical about fullstack profiles, how many fullstack devs knows in depth display:flex and in the same time transaction isolation level ?So as fullstack devs they are not supposed to become cyber-security experts in their company but since they don't have a cyber-security expert they must level up so they don't put their company at risk. Even if they hire one they must know all the basics that are related to development so they will be able to follow their cyber-security expert recommendations. They are not newbies, for instance they know about sql injection.Here is my checklist (I'll help them to learn all of that), what to you think ? There will be half theory and half practice.Introduction * Cryptography and security: two distinct domains. * Wording: hashing, encryption, key, certificate, signature, foward secrecy, CVC, zero thrust. * OWASP Top Ten 2025 and CWC Top 25 2025. * Securi
Does Putin travel without security?In order to create an image of Russian President Vladimir Putin as a leader beloved by his people, pro-Russia social media users have been claiming that he travels without a security team, unlike other heads of state. To illustrate this claim, they shared a video of his latest trip to Siberia. The footage, however, shows him with a large security contingent.









