How to manage the Open Source/Third Party libraries used in a big monolithic application?

I’m working on a big monolithic application which uses thousands of open source/third party libraries. It is painful every time if we need to upgrade or patch a component because of security vulnerabilities, performance, or other reasons.
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Is tsheets.intuit.com a safe website? If so, why does it try to access a chrome-extension:// url?

This really doesn’t seem safe to me, and I am wondering if there is a MITM attack happening or if this is somehow legit. I am worried something might be happening with my company’s payroll data. Here is my investigation so far:

starting f… Continue reading Is tsheets.intuit.com a safe website? If so, why does it try to access a chrome-extension:// url?

Is it recommended to set Referrer-Policy explicitly when the browsers already has a default policy?

I wanted to explicitly define the referrer-policy as "strict-origin-when-cross-origin" in my web application. However, "strict-origin-when-cross-origin" is the browser’s default policy when no referrer-policy is set exp… Continue reading Is it recommended to set Referrer-Policy explicitly when the browsers already has a default policy?