HivePostify.Cloud Security: From A to A+ and a Note for the Ecency Team

First, I want to thank everyone who has supported HivePostify. This post has been delayed a few days due to a personal loss. A close friend (Nasir Aslam) lost his mother, and it hit me hard. Please keep his family in your prayers.

HivePostify.Cloud is now A+ on Security Headers

Over the last four to five days, I have been working on improving the security of HivePostify.Cloud. Today, I am happy to announce that our security grade has moved from A to A+.

Old Security

A to A+

You can verify this yourself here:
🔗 https://securityheaders.com/?q=hivepostify.cloud&followRedirects=on

This is not just a number. It means we have properly implemented:

• Strict-Transport-Security with preload
• Content-Security-Policy with a strict allowlist
• X-Content-Type-Options
• Referrer-Policy
• Permissions-Policy
• frame-ancestors in CSP (replacing the old X-Frame-Options approach)

We are always improving. Things are never perfect from day one. They get better with time, and we are committed to that.

A respectful note for the @ecency team

I want to be clear: I respect Ecency (@ecency Team) a lot. It is a great platform, one of the most important frontends on the Hive blockchain. It serves many users every day.

However, I have spent several hours over the last week or two doing basic security research on Ecency, and I am genuinely concerned. Even with simple, publicly available tools, I found several security weaknesses that could put users at risk.

A quick check on SecurityHeaders shows Ecency currently scores a B:
🔗 https://securityheaders.com/?q=ecency.com&followRedirects=on

Here are some specific concerns I noticed:

• Content-Security-Policy is missing entirely
• Permissions-Policy is not set
• access-control-allow-origin: * is set globally, which is a very broad CORS policy
• Missing Cross-Origin-Embedder-Policy, Cross-Origin-Opener-Policy, and Cross-Origin-Resource-Policy

I will publish a more detailed report with proper analysis soon, but I wanted to raise this now because Ecency has a very large user base. Any vulnerability there is not just an Ecency problem; it could affect the broader Hive community.

I am not here to criticize. I am saying this because I care about the ecosystem we are all building together. The Ecency team is talented, and I trust they will take action on this.

Final words

Security is never finished. We keep improving, and I hope every team on Hive takes it seriously. If you are running a Hive frontend or service, please check your headers and update them regularly.

Remember me in your prayers.

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