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Why remove user tracking?

Individual tracking has been removed from thoughtbot.com. Learn more about why and how we made this change.
Chad Pytel and Lindsey Christensen
January 12, 2021
New online workshop: Protect your Rails app against security threats during COVID-19

Join us as we discuss the rise of security threats during COVID-19, and how upgrading your Rails application can protect your business and users.
Daniel Colson
May 7, 2020
- Security
- Rails Upgrade
- Remote
- Workshops
- Code Audit
- Web
- Ruby
- Rails
Web Security During the COVID-19 Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought with it an increase in cyber threats, but we can fight back by being more thoughtful about web security.
Daniel Colson
April 20, 2020
- Security
- Web
- Ruby
- Rails
- Rails Upgrade
- Code Audit
Protecting User Data in HIPAA Compliant Staging Environments

How to populate your staging environment with data while keeping user data secure.
Sweta Sanghavi
March 6, 2020
- Health Tech
- Security
- Data
- Web
Health Tech, HIPAA, and Humans

A brief introduction to HIPAA compliance for developers in health technology.
Mike Wenger and Sarah Cassidy
October 25, 2019
Is Your Site Leaking Password Reset Links?

Emailed password reset links are a common part of web applications. Is your site leaking these confidential links to third party sites?
Derek Prior
October 24, 2016
- Web
- Security
Paperclip IS vulnerable to ImageTragick

Paperclip is affected by CVE-2016–3714 if used with ImageMagick 7.0.1-0 or earlier.
Tute Costa
May 6, 2016
- Security
- Open Source
- Paperclip
- Ruby
ImageMagick vulnerability does not affect Paperclip

There is no need to upgrade Paperclip in light of CVE-2016–3714. You may choose to upgrade ImageMagick regardless.
Tute Costa
May 4, 2016
- Security
- Open Source
- Paperclip
- Ruby
Paperclip Security Release

We released Paperclip v4.2.2 with a security fix.
Tute Costa
June 5, 2015
- News
- Web
- Open Source
- Security
- Ruby
- Paperclip
Building secure web applications with Ruby on Rails

Ruby on Rails makes it easy to build web apps with security in mind.
Murtaza Gulamali
March 2, 2015
- Rails
- Ruby
- Security
- New Bamboo
- Web
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