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Cybersecurity

Ethical hacking, penetration testing, network security, CTFs and defensive security

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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
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Applying Checkov SAST to Detect Security Issues in Terraform Infrastructure as Code
Dev.to · Abel Fernando PACOMPIA ORTIZ 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Applying Checkov SAST to Detect Security Issues in Terraform Infrastructure as Code
Introduction Security issues in cloud infrastructure often start as small configuration...
Research on Parameter Tampering
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Research on Parameter Tampering
This research was conducted as a part of cybersecurity internship at EyeQ Dot Net Private Limited | Cyber Security Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Best Cyber Security Companies: Securing Business Growth with Lotus Roots Technologies
The digital economy has created unprecedented opportunities for businesses to innovate and expand their operations. At the same time… Continue reading on Medium
I Thought My 99% Accurate IDS Was Ready for the Real World. I Was Wrong.
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
I Thought My 99% Accurate IDS Was Ready for the Real World. I Was Wrong.
A simple cross-dataset experiment challenged everything I thought I knew about machine learning for intrusion detection. Continue reading on Medium »
Building a Data Protection Framework with Microsoft Purview
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Building a Data Protection Framework with Microsoft Purview
Platform: Microsoft Purview (M365 E5) Continue reading on Medium »
If I Were Starting Cybersecurity Today, I’d Ignore Most of the Advice Online
Medium · Python 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
If I Were Starting Cybersecurity Today, I’d Ignore Most of the Advice Online
Continue reading on Medium »
Applying Bandit SAST to Detect Vulnerabilities in a Python Flask Application
Dev.to · Abel Fernando PACOMPIA ORTIZ 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Applying Bandit SAST to Detect Vulnerabilities in a Python Flask Application
Introduction Security should be part of the development workflow, not only a final...
Applying Bandit SAST to Detect Vulnerabilities in a Python Flask Application
Dev.to · Abel Fernando PACOMPIA ORTIZ 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Applying Bandit SAST to Detect Vulnerabilities in a Python Flask Application
Introduction Security should be part of the development workflow, not only a final...
AdaptixC2 Explained: Understanding Modern Command-and-Control Frameworks from a Defender’s…
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
AdaptixC2 Explained: Understanding Modern Command-and-Control Frameworks from a Defender’s…
Why Security Professionals Should Understand Modern C2 Frameworks Continue reading on Medium »
Certifying something on-chain without revealing it: privacy attestation on Midnight
Dev.to · Cory Dabrowski 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Certifying something on-chain without revealing it: privacy attestation on Midnight
I built Grid Audit, a tool that reviews Midnight code and then lets you certify that review on-chain....
How Bad Actors Exploited DNS Laxity in 2026: A Deep Dive into Domain Infrastructure Vulnerabilities
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
How Bad Actors Exploited DNS Laxity in 2026: A Deep Dive into Domain Infrastructure Vulnerabilities
The cyber threat landscape of 2026 has exposed a fundamental flaw in enterprise security: companies are defending their perimeters while… Continue reading on Me
Security Profiles Operator hits v1 with stable APIs and a hardening pass
Dev.to · Leo 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Security Profiles Operator hits v1 with stable APIs and a hardening pass
The CNCF's Security Profiles Operator graduated to v1.0.0 on June 26, freezing eight CRD APIs and clearing a third-party audit. The kubelet-side follow-up, KEP
Best Temporary Email for Gmail Verification in 2026: Stay Private and Avoid Spam
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Best Temporary Email for Gmail Verification in 2026: Stay Private and Avoid Spam
Every day, millions of people create new online accounts. Whether you’re signing up for a new app, testing a website, or downloading… Continue reading on Medium
DOM-Based Vulnerabilities: A Technical Guide to Exploitation and Mitigation
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
DOM-Based Vulnerabilities: A Technical Guide to Exploitation and Mitigation
Aprende a identificar, explotar y mitigar vulnerabilidades DOM (XSS, CSPP y DOM Clobbering) con metodologías avanzadas de Bug Bounty. Continue reading on Medium
Mobile App Authentication: Best Practices for iOS and Android Developers (2026)
Dev.to · SecureCodingHub 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Mobile App Authentication: Best Practices for iOS and Android Developers (2026)
The mobile app authentication best practices question is the single hardest one to answer well in...
Malware on Your Machine: A Developer's Complete Incident Response Guide
Dev.to · Red Masil 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Malware on Your Machine: A Developer's Complete Incident Response Guide
🛡️ Your Computer Got Infected — Now What? A Developer's Survival Guide to Malware...
Sandboxing Reality: How to Spoof iPhone Locations for Advanced Penetration Testing
Dev.to · v. Splicer 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Sandboxing Reality: How to Spoof iPhone Locations for Advanced Penetration Testing
Listen up. If you’re still playing by the rules Apple wrote for you, you aren’t testing security....
The Death of Legacy WHOIS: How Modern Security Teams Track Malicious Infrastructure
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
The Death of Legacy WHOIS: How Modern Security Teams Track Malicious Infrastructure
Modern threat actors have learned to exploit privacy proxy services and GDPR redactions to conceal their corporate footprints. Continue reading on Medium »
CYBER AEGIS (Part 1): Architecting a Full-Spectrum Enterprise SOC Lab from Scratch
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
CYBER AEGIS (Part 1): Architecting a Full-Spectrum Enterprise SOC Lab from Scratch
How we built a defensible, multi-layered Purple Team environment to simulate real-world cyberattacks. Continue reading on Medium »
I Left a Fake Server Online for 21 Days. Here’s Who Showed Up.
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
I Left a Fake Server Online for 21 Days. Here’s Who Showed Up.
939,329 attacks. 7 criminal campaigns. 101 countries. What a 21-day SSH honeypot revealed about who’s scanning the internet right now. Continue reading on Mediu
AI Companies Face Collapse After Single Privacy Error
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
AI Companies Face Collapse After Single Privacy Error
Smarter AI pushes forward at full speed — yet slipping personal data keeps pace, sprinting right beside it. Continue reading on StartupInsider »
Your cloud keys should not exist
Dev.to · b0gy 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Your cloud keys should not exist
Most cloud platforms that need access to your infrastructure start with the same onboarding step:...
Government Infrastructure Exposure in a Chinese-linked Mass WordPress/CMS Exploitation Dataset
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Government Infrastructure Exposure in a Chinese-linked Mass WordPress/CMS Exploitation Dataset
A victimology-focused follow-on analysis with emphasis on GCC and Middle East government exposure Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
5 things SOC teams hate about legacy EDR platforms
https://lightedr.com/blog/2026-06-26-soc-legacy-edr-complaints/ Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Welcome to the LightEDR Blog
Welcome to the LightEDR blog — a weekly space where we share development updates, detection engineering notes, and thoughts on building… Continue reading on Med
Quebrando as Algemas do EDR: Native Unhooking na Prática (x86/WOW64)
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Quebrando as Algemas do EDR: Native Unhooking na Prática (x86/WOW64)
Como os agentes de segurança monitoram seus processos em Modo Usuário e como reescrever as regras do jogo manipulando a ntdll.dll Continue reading on Medium »
How to Block Apps from Accessing the Internet on Mac
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
How to Block Apps from Accessing the Internet on Mac
I spend part of my week watching what apps say to the internet, and most of them say more than they need to. A PDF viewer that calls a… Continue reading on Medi
Your App Is Leaking Secrets and You Don’t Know It
Medium · Programming 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Your App Is Leaking Secrets and You Don’t Know It
Most apps encrypt data in transit, forget it at rest, and never even think about data in use. Here’s where your secrets quietly walk out… Continue reading on Le
Your App Is Leaking Secrets and You Don’t Know It
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Your App Is Leaking Secrets and You Don’t Know It
Most apps encrypt data in transit, forget it at rest, and never even think about data in use. Here’s where your secrets quietly walk out… Continue reading on Le
GitHub Disables Automatic Npm Install Script Execution
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
GitHub Disables Automatic Npm Install Script Execution
GitHub will block automatic install script execution in npm by default starting to mitigate rising software supply chain security risks. Continue reading on Lev
BannerGrapV2 — The Open-Source Network Recon Tool Built in Go That Security Professionals Actually Need
Dev.to · MrEchoFi 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
BannerGrapV2 — The Open-Source Network Recon Tool Built in Go That Security Professionals Actually Need
BannerGrapV2 is a blazing-fast, multi-protocol banner grabbing and vulnerability discovery tool written in Go. Real-world commands for pentesters, red teamers,
African Developers Are Building the Most Targeted Software in the World
Medium · Python 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
African Developers Are Building the Most Targeted Software in the World
Financial apps, health records, government systems the things African developers build are exactly what attackers want. Most of us are not… Continue reading on
Cybersecurity News Review — Week 26 (2026)
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Cybersecurity News Review — Week 26 (2026)
A zero-day exploited for months before anyone noticed and an unpatchable iPhone flaw are just two of this week’s unsettling headlines… Continue reading on Cyber
AdversaryGraph v4.0: I Added a Full Malware Analysis Workbench to My Self-Hosted CTI Platform
Medium · AI 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
AdversaryGraph v4.0: I Added a Full Malware Analysis Workbench to My Self-Hosted CTI Platform
Static triage, string extraction, AI full analysis, ATT&CK pivots, IOC enrichment, and detection engineering — all from one self-hosted… Continue reading on Med
Simon Willison's Blog 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Incident Report: CVE-2026-LGTM
Incident Report: CVE-2026-LGTM Spectacular hypothetical incident report by Andrew Nesbitt. Day 2, 16:00 UTC --- Two AI review agents from competing vendors, bot
We Built a Workflow Engine That Can’t Have n8n’s CVE
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
We Built a Workflow Engine That Can’t Have n8n’s CVE
n8n had CVE-2025–68613 last month CVSS 9.9, RCE via expression eval. That’s not the interesting part. Continue reading on Medium »
Demonstrating LLMNR Poisoning in Active Directory
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Demonstrating LLMNR Poisoning in Active Directory
LLMNR refers to Link Local Multicast Name Resolution which is a protocol that acts as a fallback for failure in DNS lookups on a network… Continue reading on Me
An AI Just Broke Into the NSA And Nobody’s Talking About What That Actually Means.
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
An AI Just Broke Into the NSA And Nobody’s Talking About What That Actually Means.
On June 11, 2026, an AI model breached almost all NSA classified systems. Continue reading on Age of Awareness »
Build a Password Generator With Python
Medium · Machine Learning 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Build a Password Generator With Python
Weak passwords are one of the biggest security risks in the world. Here is how to build a tool that generates strong ones automatically. Continue reading on Med
Build a Password Generator With Python
Medium · Programming 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Build a Password Generator With Python
Weak passwords are one of the biggest security risks in the world. Here is how to build a tool that generates strong ones automatically. Continue reading on Med
The State of End-of-Life Software 2026: 32 of 459 Technologies Have Active CVEs
Dev.to · endoflife-ai 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
The State of End-of-Life Software 2026: 32 of 459 Technologies Have Active CVEs
An original data report across 459 tracked technologies — 32 tied to actively-exploited vulnerabilities, 30 Critical, and 190 with a release reaching EOL in 202
What Is a Firewall? A Complete Beginner’s Guide to How Firewalls Work (2026)
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
What Is a Firewall? A Complete Beginner’s Guide to How Firewalls Work (2026)
Learn what a firewall is, why it was invented, how firewalls work, where they are used, what they protect against, and why different types… Continue reading on
TechRepublic 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Hackers Claim French Employment Leak Exposes Over 1M Records, Health Data
Hackers claim 1M+ records tied to French employment apps were exposed, including HR files, health data, worker details, and plaintext passwords. The post Hacker
# Stop Uploading Sensitive Data to Online Tools: Use Browser-Based Developer Utilities Instead
Dev.to · ToolMight 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
# Stop Uploading Sensitive Data to Online Tools: Use Browser-Based Developer Utilities Instead
As developers, we often copy and paste sensitive data into online tools without thinking twice. JWT...
How AegisLink's handshake survives a quantum computer (X3DH + ML-KEM-768)
Dev.to · gabinotech22-cmyk 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
How AegisLink's handshake survives a quantum computer (X3DH + ML-KEM-768)
In my first post in this series I said the next one would go deep on the handshake. This is it. If...
A single config file in a cloned repository could steal your AWS credentials through Amazon Q Developer
The Next Web AI 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
A single config file in a cloned repository could steal your AWS credentials through Amazon Q Developer
A high-severity flaw in Amazon Q Developer allowed a malicious code repository to silently execute commands on a developer’s machine and steal their AWS credent
Dissecting WannaCry: A Comprehensive Malware Analysis
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Dissecting WannaCry: A Comprehensive Malware Analysis
WannaCry remains one of the most significant case studies in automated threat propagation. While much of the industry focus historically… Continue reading on Me
From Building a Cyber Lab to Hunting Vulnerabilities: My Week Inside a Cybersecurity Bootcamp
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
From Building a Cyber Lab to Hunting Vulnerabilities: My Week Inside a Cybersecurity Bootcamp
Hands on lessons in ethical hacking, penetration testing, and vulnerability assessment at Uganda Christian University Continue reading on Medium »