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Cybersecurity
Ethical hacking, penetration testing, network security, CTFs and defensive security
Skills in this topic
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Security Basics
beginner
Fix OWASP top 10 vulnerabilities
AI Security
intermediate
Identify and patch prompt injection vulnerabilities
Network Security
intermediate
Configure a firewall with proper inbound/outbound rules
Ethical Hacking & Pen Testing
intermediate
Conduct a full pen test with Kali Linux
Cloud Security
intermediate
Implement IAM least-privilege policies on AWS/GCP
Incident Response
intermediate
Build an incident response playbook
Security Compliance
intermediate
Map controls for SOC 2 Type II compliance
Defensive AI
advanced
Build an AI-powered log anomaly detector

Medium · Cybersecurity
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2h ago
The Honeypot That Lied: Diagnosing a Silent 12-Day Telemetry Gap
My honeypot looked completely healthy. Containers up, process alive, firewall intact, watchdogs running. And it had not shipped a single… Continue reading on Me
Medium · Cybersecurity
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2h ago
Can Hackers Sniff Wi-Fi from the Toilet?
A strange office dead zone, RF shielding paint, and a simple lesson about wireless security. Continue reading on MeetCyber »

Medium · Cybersecurity
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2h ago
Snort Configuration into pfSense
In this project, I configured Snort as a Network Intrusion Detection and Prevention System (NIDS/NIPS) directly on my pfSense router. I… Continue reading on Med
Medium · DevOps
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2h ago
Why curl Paused Security Reports for a Summer of Bliss
As AI generated reports overwhelm volunteer maintainers, one of the internet’s most critical projects is officially taking a break. Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · Python
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2h ago
Como una mala implementación de cifrado, puede salvar tus archivos cifrados con un ransomware
PD ENORME: NO ESTAN IMAGENES DE COMO FUNCIONA EL RANSOMWARE O DE LA HERRAMIENTA DE DESCIFRADO POR QUE TUVE CIERTOS PROBLEMAS Y NO HE… Continue reading on Medium

Medium · Cybersecurity
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2h ago
Como una mala implementación de cifrado, puede salvar tus archivos cifrados con un ransomware
PD ENORME: NO ESTAN IMAGENES DE COMO FUNCIONA EL RANSOMWARE O DE LA HERRAMIENTA DE DESCIFRADO POR QUE TUVE CIERTOS PROBLEMAS Y NO HE… Continue reading on Medium

Medium · Cybersecurity
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3h ago
TryHackme Silver Platter
First, I start by running an Nmap scan: Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · Cybersecurity
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4h ago
Why Digital Privacy Matters More Than Ever in 2026
We live in a world where almost every click, search, purchase, and conversation leaves a digital footprint. While technology has made life… Continue reading on

Medium · Cybersecurity
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6h ago
Building a Mental Map for Blind SQL Injection (The Hard Way)
I spent the last stretch of my bug bounty prep working through PortSwigger’s blind SQL injection labs, and I want to write down what I… Continue reading on Medi
Medium · Cybersecurity
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6h ago
Why I choose cyber security as my career
•cyber security refers to Protecting data from unauthorized people or protecting it from attack Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · Cybersecurity
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10h ago
Vietnamese Cybercrime Groups Abuse Google Services to Phish Facebook Ad Accounts
A new type of phishing threat is spreading across the cross-border advertising community. Unlike traditional spam emails, this campaign… Continue reading on Med
Medium · Cybersecurity
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10h ago
How Does a Message Find the Right Path?
In the previous article, we discovered that every computer on a network needs an address. Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · Cybersecurity
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10h ago
Cloud-Managed Security Is Changing Charlotte’s Digital Economy — Here’s What That Actually Means”
A few years back, if you wanted decent security for your business network, you needed a server room. A guy who understood servers. And a… Continue reading on Me

Medium · Cybersecurity
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12h ago
Web Frameworks: Code Review (THM) Tryhackme Walkthrough
Description : Read web app source like an attacker: trace user input to dangerous sinks, triage with Semgrep. Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · Cybersecurity
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12h ago
The New Fraud Problem: Fake Documents That Look Too Real
AI has made fake paystubs, invoices, bank statements, IDs, and job offers easier to create — and harder for people to question. Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · Cybersecurity
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14h ago
FortiBleed: Inside the Largest Firewall Credential-Harvesting Campaign
How a financially motivated threat actor turned a legitimate FortiOS diagnostic command into a global credential-stealing machine… Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · Cybersecurity
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14h ago
Insider threat investigations: what forensic evidence you need and how to collect it correctly
Insider threat cases are among the hardest security investigations to conduct well. Not because the evidence is hard to find, often it is… Continue reading on M
Medium · Cybersecurity
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14h ago
HIPAA Explained: Why Your Medical Records Are More Protected Than You Think
A plain-English guide to the law shaping privacy in American healthcare Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · Cybersecurity
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14h ago
Cyber Security course in Hyderabad
Cyber Security Course in Hyderabad: Build a Successful Career in the Fast-Growing Cybersecurity Industry Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · Cybersecurity
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14h ago
EDR, XDR, NDR, SIEM… What Actually Does What
Decoding the Cybersecurity Alphabet Soup: AV, EDR, IDS, IPS, NDR, SIEM, XDR, and MDR Explained Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · Cybersecurity
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16h ago
The Most Important Word in Cybersecurity Isn’t "Firewall." It’s Entropy
Why the idea behind "password123 is a bad password" quietly underpins almost everything that keeps your data safe and the real bug that… Continue reading on Med

Medium · Cybersecurity
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16h ago
Why Cyber Security Is Critical to India’s Digital Future
India’s digital economy has scaled at a pace few countries have matched. Payments move instantly, identity verification happens in seconds… Continue reading on

Medium · Cybersecurity
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16h ago
Threat Hunting
Threat Hunting is also known as Cyber Threat Hunting. Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · Cybersecurity
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18h ago
Kioptrix 2: Walkthrough and Write-up
In this write-up, we will walk through the step-by-step penetration testing process for the classic Kioptrix vulnerable machine. This lab… Continue reading on M

Medium · Cybersecurity
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18h ago
Even Cybercriminals Can’t Trust Their Service Providers
If another company had an incident this size, it would be catastrophic. But for StealC, it’s just another day. Continue reading on Medium »

Forbes Innovation
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19h ago
iOS 27—Apple’s New Software Will Allow Apps To Alert You About Scams
New iOS 27 framework helps apps detect when people are being scammed and alert them in real time. Here's what you need to know.

Medium · Cybersecurity
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20h ago
Secure, Stable, and Reliable: The Benefits of Dedicated Servers
Cloud technology has transformed the way businesses build and scale their digital infrastructure. It’s flexible, convenient, and… Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · Cybersecurity
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20h ago
# Building an Active Directory Security Lab — Part 2: Users, Groups, and the First GPO
In [Part 1] (https://medium.com/@ahmednaoum/cybersecurity-lab-7278776f731d) I got the domain controller running and verified it with… Continue reading on Medium
Medium · Cybersecurity
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22h ago
Data Privacy is Essential, And Often Neglected
When was the last time you DOXXED yourself, or had a professional dox you, build an opposition file, dossier, or otherwise build a profile… Continue reading on

Medium · Cybersecurity
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1d ago
We Didn’t Lose to Hackers. We Lost to Complexity.
What Salesloft Drift, Change Healthcare, CrowdStrike, M&S, and JLR teach us about secure AI-by-design. Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · Cybersecurity
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1d ago
Someone Was Testing My Live App While I Was Asleep
I want to start with the comment, because the comment set the tone for everything that followed. Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · Cybersecurity
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1d ago
Writing Code to Watch the Watchers: Log Aggression and Digital Self-Defense
The modern internet isn’t run by omniscient gods. It’s run by overworked sysadmins, bloated enterprise suites, and automated scrapers… Continue reading on Mediu

Medium · Cybersecurity
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1d ago
Building SkyVault: A 100% Local, AI-Powered Private NAS
By Harris Saeed, Hadi Ahmad, Muhammad Abdullah bin Khalid, and Muhammad Rafay Nabeel— Final Year Project, Department of Computer… Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · Cybersecurity
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1d ago
Day 6: Who Are You, and What Can You Do? Kubernetes Auth, Demystified
Every command you run against a cluster goes through one door: the API server. Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · Cybersecurity
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1d ago
Your Scanner Reads One Workflow at a Time. The Attack Lives in the Chain.
A new class of CI/CD vulnerability exposes the difference between a detection control and a governance decision, and a regulatory clock is… Continue reading on

Medium · Cybersecurity
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1d ago
Beyond MFA: Why Identity Security Has Become the Foundation of Modern Cyber Resilience
Every week, organizations invest millions in firewalls, endpoint protection, cloud security, and AI-powered threat detection. Continue reading on All About Cybe

Medium · Cybersecurity
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1d ago
Fools Mate Pair
Two new Capture-the-Flag rooms, the Fools Mate and its sequel Fools Mate, Revenge. Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · Cybersecurity
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1d ago
Beyond Compliance: What Earning the ISO/IEC 27701:2025 Lead Auditor Certification Means to Me
In today’s digital world, data has become one of the most valuable assets organizations possess. Every online transaction, registration… Continue reading on Med

Medium · Cybersecurity
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1d ago
Fool’s Mate: When the Engine Bluffs
Room: Fool’s Mate — TryHackMe Difficulty: Easy | Category: Web / Client-Side Bypass Author: Abdul Rehman | LinkedIn | TryHackMe Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · Cybersecurity
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1d ago
Top 5 Cybersecurity Interview Questions (2026) | Perfectnotes
Cybersecurity is one of the fastest-growing fields in the world, with millions of unfilled roles. However, passing a technical security… Continue reading on Med
Medium · Cybersecurity
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1d ago
Essential Cybersecurity Guide for Small Business Owners
MicroTech Systems offers an essential cybersecurity guide for small business owners seeking stronger protection against evolving cyber… Continue reading on Medi

Medium · Cybersecurity
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1d ago
Cloud-Based Cybersecurity Solutions: Benefits, Features, and Best Practices
A few years ago, “cybersecurity” mostly meant a firewall sitting in a server closet somewhere, quietly doing its job while nobody thought… Continue reading on M

Medium · Cybersecurity
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1d ago
Understanding RELRO and the Global Offset Table (GOT): A Hands-On Linux Deep Dive
Learn how Linux dynamically links functions, how the GOT works, what RELRO protects, and how to inspect everything yourself using GDB… Continue reading on Mediu

Medium · Cybersecurity
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1d ago
Understanding DEP/NX and PIE in Linux: A Hands-On Deep Dive Into Modern Memory Protections
Learn how Linux prevents code execution from data memory, randomizes executable code, and why modern binaries are much harder to attack… Continue reading on Med

Medium · Cybersecurity
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1d ago
Managed Cybersecurity for NZ Small Businesses: What You Actually Need in 2026
Managed cybersecurity combines 24/7 network monitoring, endpoint protection, staff phishing training, and Privacy Act compliance reporting… Continue reading on

Medium · Cybersecurity
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1d ago
India Just Joined an Elite Club. Here’s Why That Matters for Global Infrastructure Security
India is now the 7th country to master Gallium Nitride semiconductor technology a capability once denied to it, now developed… Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · Cybersecurity
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1d ago
How Does a Login System Verify You If the Salt is Always Random?
Hello everyone !! Welcome back !! Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · Cybersecurity
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1d ago
Top Certification Courses to Launch Your IT Career in 2026
The IT industry continues to evolve at an incredible pace, creating exciting opportunities for professionals equipped with the right… Continue reading on Medium
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