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Dev.to · authagonal
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
3w ago
We required MFA. One query parameter turned it off.
We challenged the second factor on the login page and never re-checked it at the token endpoint. So a valid password plus a hand-edited return URL walked straig

Dev.to · authagonal
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
4w ago
Every per-IP control we shipped was bypassable with one header
Our rate limiter and lockout counter keyed off the client IP. Behind nginx that IP came from a header the client could set, so one rotating header handed every

Dev.to · authagonal
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Your password-reset form is a free email cannon
An unauthenticated password-reset endpoint with no per-email rate limit is not just your problem. Point it at someone else's inbox and you have turned their res

Dev.to · authagonal
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Scale-to-zero can't count to one
Azure Container Apps promised to stop us paying for an idle auth cluster. We costed the migration and killed it, not over price or cold starts, but because serv

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