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A planned penetration test for the Minimum Viable Health Dataspace v2 has revealed multiple high-severity vulnerabilities in its core dependencies, raising immediate security risks for the demo platform. The automated scan, using Trivy and npm audit, identified critical flaws in the Next.js framework, the OpenTelemetry...
A critical security gap has been exposed in the `djust_audit` tool, which currently relies on static analysis and cannot detect when security headers are silently stripped or rewritten by production infrastructure before reaching the client. The proposal calls for a new `--live <url>` mode—or a separate `djust_live_aud...
A feature request within the Metasploit Framework's development pipeline calls for a significant enhancement to vulnerability data reporting. The proposal is to add check code details directly to the `VulnAttempt` model. This change would allow the framework to surface granular, technical confirmation data to users, mo...
A penetration tester demonstrated how easily corporate security can be compromised through social engineering, revealing that simply calling IT support and impersonating a senior executive was sufficient to gain account access. The case highlights a persistent vulnerability that many organizations fail to address despi...