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Virtue Security

Company blog · virtuesecurity.com/blogsecurityweb

Virtue Security is the company blog at virtuesecurity.com, writing about security and web. Since 2016, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Understanding jQuery Security”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.

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4mentions?
3HN people?
2016–2019first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2016

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

Why HN links it

Linked as a blog post on AWS penetration testing, shared in a thread about a Burp extension for detecting S3 bucket misconfigurations. The only comment is a bare link, so it says nothing about the writing.

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.

Virtue Security is a NYC penetration testing company specialized in application and network penetration testing services.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Understanding jQuery Security
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-09-30

What Hacker News says?

  1. Blog post: https://www.virtuesecurity.com/blog/aws-penetration-testing-...

    Comment linking /blog/aws-penetration-testing-s3-buckets/

    on “A Burp extension for automated detection of AWS S3 buckets misconfigurations”
  2. Submitted Tale of a Wormable Twitter XSS as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Understanding jQuery Security as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Understanding JQuery Security – Bad Developer Implementation as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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