Bot Detection Beyond CAPTCHA: Behavioral Signals in Practice
CAPTCHAs frustrate legitimate users. Learn how to detect automated headless browser bots using mouse entropy, web audio fingerprinting, and JA3 TLS signatures.
8/6/202622 min read
#Security
38 articles tagged with Security
Building a Plugin System With WebAssembly Sandboxing
Safely run third-party untrusted code inside your Node.js or browser application using WebAssembly memory sandboxing.
8/6/202622 min read
Building a Spam/Fraud Detection System From Rules to ML
Learn how to evolve a fraud detection engine from deterministic heuristic rules to machine learning classification models.
8/6/202622 min read
Content Moderation at Small Scale: Rules Before ML
Learn how early-stage applications handle automated content moderation efficiently using regex keyword lists, rate limiting, and review queues.
8/6/202620 min read
Deepfake Detection: What's Actually Detectable in 2026
A realistic technical assessment of deepfake video, audio, and image detection techniques: spectral artifacts, biological signals, and C2PA provenance cryptographic watermarking.
8/6/202622 min read
Dependency Update Strategy: Renovate vs Dependabot in Practice
Compare automated dependency maintenance tools: Renovate Bot vs GitHub Dependabot. Learn how to configure PR grouping, auto-merging, and security updates.
8/6/202622 min read
Homomorphic Encryption: A Practical (Slow) First Experiment
Learn how Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) allows performing mathematical operations on encrypted ciphertext without decrypting it first.
8/6/202622 min read
mTLS Between Microservices: A Practical Setup Guide
Learn how Mutual TLS (mTLS) enforces cryptographically verified bi-directional authentication between internal microservices using SPIFFE/SPIRE.
8/6/202626 min read
Ransomware Economics in 2026: Why Payment Still Sometimes Makes Sense
The uncomfortable math of ransomware: when paying is cheaper than not paying, how threat actors price demands, what RaaS business models look like, and what engineering controls change the calculus.
8/6/202622 min read
WASI (WebAssembly System Interface): Wasm Outside the Browser
Learn how WASI (WebAssembly System Interface) brings secure, sandboxed Wasm execution to serverless backends, edge runtimes, and local CLI tools.
8/6/202622 min read
75 Million Records for Sale: What the Revolut-Scale Breaches Have in Common
Sifting truth from cybercrime forum claims. Analyze the commonalities in massive fintech data breaches, credential aggregation risks, and credential stuffing vectors.
8/1/202623 min read
Audit Logging: Building a System You Can Actually Trust in Court
The tamper-evident security audit log blueprint. SHA-256 Merkle trees, immutable append-only ledgers, cryptographic signing, and legal evidence admissibility.
8/1/202625 min read