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Stories by Flatt Security Inc. on Medium

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Stories by Flatt Security Inc. on Medium is the company blog at flattsecurity.medium.com, writing about security and systems. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Finding an unseen SQL Injection by bypassing escape functions in mysqljs/MySQL”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.

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4mentions?
3HN people?
2021–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2022

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Posts from Flatt Security about web security findings, such as an SQL injection and an authorization bypass on a website. One commenter links an earlier post on the same vulnerable code.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Finding an unseen SQL Injection by bypassing escape functions in mysqljs/MySQL
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-02-21

What Hacker News says?

  1. This appears to be an exact copy of an issue described 12 days ago: https://flattsecurity.medium.com/finding-an-unseen-sql-injec... The opening segment is the exact same piece of vulnerable code.

    Comment linking /finding-an-unseen-sql-injection-by-bypassing-escape-functions-in-mysqljs-mysql-90b27f6542b4

    on “Finding an authorization bypass on my own website”
  2. Submitted A reference counting bug which leads to local privilege escalation in io_uring as a story · 119 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Finding an unseen SQL Injection by bypassing escape functions in mysqljs/MySQL as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Finding an unseen SQL Injection by bypassing escape functions in mysqljs/MySQL as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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