What I Learned from Scanning Dozens of Small Government Websites (and Why the Same Bugs Keep Coming)

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What I found while scanning dozens of small U.S. government websites with an open-source tool — the same five security mistakes and how to fix them.
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I built an open-source scanner and pointed it at small U.S. government websites. The same five security mistakes kept showing up: weak HTTPS, no CSP, leaky test files, insecure cookies and outdated JS – plus a simple baseline to fix them.