Cybersecurity

Many teams know they have vulnerabilities. They scan repositories, receive security alerts, review...

so here's the situation i kept running into while studying for security+ and messing with sample log...

If you run a website, your HTTP response headers are the first thing a browser sees before it renders...

Explore how AI coding tools like Cursor and Gemini CLI pose new security risks as privileged CI agents. Learn what to patch and audit in your development enviro

Your CI workflow is the softest target in your repo. It runs automatically, it has a GITHUB_TOKEN...

A large-scale power outage is one of the most practical tests of data center resilience. It does not...

Why Math.random() Is Unsafe for Passwords — and How to Use crypto.getRandomValues...

Red Hat's npm channel got backdoored — yes, the official one — so if your dependency hygiene was...

An unpatched WinRE exploit, GreatXML, bypasses BitLocker on any Windows 11 machine that ran a Defender offline scan. The fix is TPM+PIN, not a patch.

TL;DR what: ShinyHunters exploited CVE-2026-35273, an unauthenticated remote code...

For the first time, AI has been used to exploit a software vulnerability. Google discovered it in May...

What started as a simple security hardening task on a Next.js 16 marketing site turned into a lesson...

Oracle issued an emergency patch for a critical code injection vulnerability (CVE-2026-35273, CVSS 9.8) in PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools that allows unauthe

The Miasma worm planted .claude/settings.json and .gemini/settings.json files in 73 Microsoft GitHub repositories to harvest cloud credentials the moment a deve

Math.random() passwords are crackable from 64-128 outputs. crypto.getRandomValues() fixes it - plus the modulo-bias and 64KB quota gotchas that bite DIY fixes.

Every developer I know has a VPN. Most of them have it running while they're logged into Google,...

Difficulty: Medium OS: Linux Reconnaissance Nmap nmap -sC -sV -A...

Security is a shared responsibility in AWS, and one of the most important skills for cloud engineers...

A real browser opens an HTTPS page served by a binary whose every cryptographic transform — key exchange, signature, encryption, hash — is machine code emitted

WebRTC is a powerful browser API for real-time audio, video, and data communication. But there's a...

Passwords fail because they get transmitted and stored. Passkeys don't. Here's the WebAuthn flow, the crypto behind it, and how to implement it — with real code

Fraud-as-a-Service (FaaS) should ideally not exist. Yet it does. This is the story of money...

PASETO: Say Goodbye to JWT Nightmares, Hello to Safer Tokens! Ever found yourself staring...

Originally written for r/webdev on Reddit — sharing here for the dev.to community. I'm a developer...

Originally written for r/SideProject on Reddit — sharing here for the dev.to community. TL;DR:...

Rolling out default-deny NetworkPolicies and namespace isolation with Calico without breaking DNS, ingress, or admission webhooks.

Hardcoded credentials in source code remain one of the leading causes of cloud breaches. The fix...

Arm reports a critical privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2025-10263) affecting multiple CPU cores, including Neoverse and Cortex models, due to a timing f

How to run authenticated browser automation without storing user passwords, using a vault, short-lived reads, sessions, and audit logs.

Most people studying for Security+ use practice questions the wrong way. They take a 90 question set,...

Introduction Three months ago, I started an experiment. I took 100 GitHub repositories some huge,...

There are 50 days remaining to submit a challenge for the SecDim "Fix the Flag" competition at AppSec...

There is a conversation that happens in security teams constantly, and it almost never goes anywhere...

The JDY botnet, a scanning and reconnaissance network linked to Chinese threat actors such as Volt...

As developers and DevOps engineers, we’ve all been there. You have an external service—maybe an Azure...

App OAuth bypasses the signup captcha but not the email confirmation interstitial. That one sentence...

Imagine you lose your work laptop on a commute. It holds 3 years of customer PII, internal product...

Introduction The attacker was already inside. A reverse shell was open, a flag file had...

Introduction: Nightmare-Eclipse Exposes Critical Windows 0-Day Vulnerability The recent...

Securing PostgreSQL, in the order an attacker would try things ...

Pi-hole is a network-level ad and tracker blocking application that acts as a DNS sinkhole, returning...

AdGuard Home is an open-source, network-wide ad and tracker blocking DNS server with a web dashboard,...

Introduction and Background The Rust ecosystem, celebrated for its memory safety and...

Implement a zero-trust model across clouds: federated identity (SAML/OIDC), microsegmentation, encryption-in-transit, and continuous policy enforcemen

Sharing environment variables during a quick project hand-off shouldn't require setting up a heavy...

Your fuzz tests pass. Your unit tests pass. Coverage is green. Then the protocol goes live and...

As I continue learning web application security, I keep discovering that many serious vulnerabilities...

INTRODUCTION Keeping cloud storage safe means more than just setting a password. When...