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Security Basics
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Fix OWASP top 10 vulnerabilities
AI Security
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Identify and patch prompt injection vulnerabilities
Network Security
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Configure a firewall with proper inbound/outbound rules
Ethical Hacking & Pen Testing
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Conduct a full pen test with Kali Linux
Cloud Security
intermediate
Implement IAM least-privilege policies on AWS/GCP
Incident Response
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Build an incident response playbook
Security Compliance
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Map controls for SOC 2 Type II compliance
Defensive AI
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Build an AI-powered log anomaly detector
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Security-first infrastructure for payments: isolation, key management, and PCI scope reduction
Dev.to · errorbudget 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Security-first infrastructure for payments: isolation, key management, and PCI scope reduction
How payment infrastructure is architected security-first: PCI scope reduction, HSM-backed key management, tokenization, and the segmentation that keeps the high
The SIEM Isn't Dying. Its Job Is Splitting in Two.
Dev.to · Chris Ray 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
The SIEM Isn't Dying. Its Job Is Splitting in Two.
Every few months someone declares the SIEM dead, and an AI layer that queries all your systems in...
Post-Quantum Cryptography and DNS: What's Changing and How to Prepare
Dev.to · Kishore Bhavnanie 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Post-Quantum Cryptography and DNS: What's Changing and How to Prepare
A sufficiently powerful quantum computer could break RSA and ECDSA, the cryptographic algorithms that...
Why Organizations Are Still Missing Out on Passwordless Adoption
Dev.to · mosbat 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Why Organizations Are Still Missing Out on Passwordless Adoption
According to a 2024 study by Ponemon-Sullivan Privacy Report, it was found that around 76% of...
Syscoin Halts Bridge Operations After 5 Billion Token Validation Error
Dev.to · Codego Group 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Syscoin Halts Bridge Operations After 5 Billion Token Validation Error
Syscoin has suspended its bridge infrastructure following a critical validation flaw that generated 5 billion unauthorized SYS tokens on the network's UTXO side
CVE-2022-0492: CVE-2022-0492: Privilege Escalation and Container Escape via cgroups v1 release_agent
Dev.to · CVE Reports 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
CVE-2022-0492: CVE-2022-0492: Privilege Escalation and Container Escape via cgroups v1 release_agent
CVE-2022-0492: Privilege Escalation and Container Escape via cgroups v1...
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in Cybersecurity – Week 23
Dev.to · Mark0 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in Cybersecurity – Week 23
This week saw significant law enforcement and regulatory actions, including the DoJ's "Disruption...
Miasma Worm Hits 73 Microsoft GitHub Repositories in Major Supply Chain Attack
Dev.to · Mark0 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Miasma Worm Hits 73 Microsoft GitHub Repositories in Major Supply Chain Attack
Microsoft's GitHub ecosystem has been hit by the Miasma supply chain attack, resulting in the...
Chinese APT deploys new malware to keep access to hacked networks
Dev.to · Mark0 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Chinese APT deploys new malware to keep access to hacked networks
Chinese espionage group UNC5221 (VerdantBamboo) has been observed maintaining long-term access to...
BOF Cocktails in Cobalt Strike
Dev.to · Mark0 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
BOF Cocktails in Cobalt Strike
Cobalt Strike 4.13 introduced the BEACON_INLINE_EXECUTE Aggressor hook, which allows operators to...
Seeking Counsel: Ongoing Targeted Campaign Against US Law Firms
Dev.to · Mark0 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Seeking Counsel: Ongoing Targeted Campaign Against US Law Firms
Mandiant and Google Threat Intelligence Group have identified an ongoing campaign by UNC3753 (also...
Weird Movements - dalCTF
Dev.to · Yogeshwar Peela 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Weird Movements - dalCTF
Category: Forensics Flag: dalctf{h3h3_i_s2_p41nt} Overview We're given a packet capture....
Building a Secure Code Execution Sandbox in Rust
Dev.to · Mahmoud Berkoti 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Building a Secure Code Execution Sandbox in Rust
I got annoyed. I was looking at how most code execution platforms handle sandboxing and kept seeing...
Top 5 Vulnerability Scanners in 2026: Beyond CVE Matching and False Positives
Dev.to · Shaid Hasan Shawon 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Top 5 Vulnerability Scanners in 2026: Beyond CVE Matching and False Positives
The vulnerability management landscape has changed dramatically in recent years. For a long time,...
From Findings to Fixed: Lambda Compliance Mapping and Remediation
Dev.to · Tarek CHEIKH 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
From Findings to Fixed: Lambda Compliance Mapping and Remediation
Part 3 of 4 in the Lambda Security Series Part 1 described the risks. Part 2 introduced...
IDOR: What Is It and How Does One URL Change Expose Every User's Data?
Dev.to · Jer Catallo 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
IDOR: What Is It and How Does One URL Change Expose Every User's Data?
What Is IDOR and How Does One URL Change Expose Every User's Data? IDOR, or Insecure...
Hands-On: Understanding Security Groups and NACLs in AWS
Dev.to · Vijaya Laxmi Kadham 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Hands-On: Understanding Security Groups and NACLs in AWS
In the previous article, we learned the theory behind: Security Groups Network Access Control Lists...
Phishgaurd
Dev.to · BALLA NAGA V VENKATA SATYA NARASIMHAMURTHY 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Phishgaurd
PhishGaurd Phishing Awareness Training Platform An interactive cybersecurity...
Unveiling the Intricacies of XSS: Safeguarding Your Web Security
Dev.to · Visakh Vijayan 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Unveiling the Intricacies of XSS: Safeguarding Your Web Security
In the realm of web security, Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) stands as a formidable threat, capable of...
MCPSense v0.3.0: catching MCP server rug-pull attacks with static drift detection
Dev.to · Faizan Khan 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
MCPSense v0.3.0: catching MCP server rug-pull attacks with static drift detection
Most security scanners check a thing once. You point them at code, they find issues, you fix them,...
Securing the Source-Score API: Diving into JWT Authentication and Client Adaptations
Dev.to · Amit Singh 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Securing the Source-Score API: Diving into JWT Authentication and Client Adaptations
TL;DR I replaced a fragile API‑key system with JWT‑based authentication, updated the...
OpenAI Built a Lockdown Mode Because Tool-Based Data Exfiltration Is Real — Here's What Catches It Earlier
Dev.to · Cor E 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
OpenAI Built a Lockdown Mode Because Tool-Based Data Exfiltration Is Real — Here's What Catches It Earlier
OpenAI doesn't ship defensive product features out of nowhere. When they announced Lockdown Mode for...
How We Built Cryptographic Invoice Signatures for a SaaS Invoicing Platform
Dev.to · Reinvoice LLC 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
How We Built Cryptographic Invoice Signatures for a SaaS Invoicing Platform
How Reinvoice Uses HMAC Signatures to Detect Invoice Tampering Every invoice sent through...
Your file-sharing server shouldn't be able to read your files. Here's how I made sure mine can't.
Dev.to · onokashino 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Your file-sharing server shouldn't be able to read your files. Here's how I made sure mine can't.
Most "encrypted" file sharing means encrypted in transit and at rest, which is a polite way of saying...
You can't tell if an MCP server is safe before you install it. So I built a scanner you don't have to trust.
Dev.to · AgentGraph 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
You can't tell if an MCP server is safe before you install it. So I built a scanner you don't have to trust.
Most MCP servers and agent tools execute code, hold API keys, or run with broad permissions. There's...
CTF Writeup: Corrupted File — picoCTF
Dev.to · Vedant Kulkarni 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
CTF Writeup: Corrupted File — picoCTF
Category: Forensics Difficulty: Easy Flag: picoCTF{r3st0r1ng_th3_by73s_939a65f5} My First...
Security Without Evidence Is Faith
Dev.to · Eldor Zufarov 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Security Without Evidence Is Faith
Imagine a security team presenting the following statement to the board: "We believe our environment...
Why I Built a Privacy-First JSON Formatter After the jsonformatter.org Data Leak
Dev.to · SafeJson 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Why I Built a Privacy-First JSON Formatter After the jsonformatter.org Data Leak
In November 2025, security researchers dropped a bombshell: jsonformatter.org and codebeautify.org...
I Audited 11 Calculator Websites for Trackers — Then Built One With Zero
Dev.to · CalciQ.app 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
I Audited 11 Calculator Websites for Trackers — Then Built One With Zero
How I Built a Zero-Tracker Calculator Platform Here's the technical approach: ...
i just edited pterodactyl
Dev.to · HexZo Network 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
i just edited pterodactyl
PteroProtect (Danex): A Defense-in-Depth Security Layer for Pterodactyl PteroProtect is a...
The Security Hole in Your AI-Generated Code That Nobody Talks About
Dev.to · xu xu 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
The Security Hole in Your AI-Generated Code That Nobody Talks About
Your AI assistant just wrote 400 lines of authentication middleware. It looks clean. It passes lint....
Building a HIPAA Risk Assessment: A Plain-English Guide for Healthcare Teams
Dev.to · Joe Gellatly 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Building a HIPAA Risk Assessment: A Plain-English Guide for Healthcare Teams
What a HIPAA Security Risk Analysis actually requires under 45 CFR §164.308 — the nine documentation elements, how to scope it, where teams trip, and what's cha
Drift Protocol $285M Exploit - North Korean APT Attack on Solana
Dev.to · qanzhi111 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Drift Protocol $285M Exploit - North Korean APT Attack on Solana
On April 1, 2026, Solana's largest decentralized perpetual futures exchange Drift Protocol suffered...
HIPAA Risk Assessment in 2026: A Healthcare Engineer's Field Guide
Dev.to · Joe Gellatly 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 4w ago
HIPAA Risk Assessment in 2026: A Healthcare Engineer's Field Guide
If you build, run, or audit systems that touch protected health information (PHI), the HIPAA risk...
Hardening Two Multi Tenant SaaS APIs
Dev.to · Joshua Gutierrez 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 4w ago
Hardening Two Multi Tenant SaaS APIs
What We Found, What We Fixed, and What Changed Security hardening is not glamorous...
The Website Was Working Fine. The CMS Wasn't: Understanding Drupalgeddon2
Dev.to · Arashad Dodhiya 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 4w ago
The Website Was Working Fine. The CMS Wasn't: Understanding Drupalgeddon2
Imagine you're responsible for a company's website. Everything seems healthy. Pages load...
CAA Records: The DNS Security Control Most Organizations Skip
Dev.to · Kishore Bhavnanie 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 4w ago
CAA Records: The DNS Security Control Most Organizations Skip
If you had to guess how many Certificate Authorities are authorized to issue a TLS certificate for...
Whitelisting leased IPv4 blocks: 3 gotchas owned-space guides skip
Dev.to · Artem Kohanevich 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 4w ago
Whitelisting leased IPv4 blocks: 3 gotchas owned-space guides skip
IP whitelisting is the oldest trick in the access-control book: deny everything, allow a known set of...
When a File Upload Becomes Server Access: Understanding the Tomcat PUT Upload Vulnerability
Dev.to · Arashad Dodhiya 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 4w ago
When a File Upload Becomes Server Access: Understanding the Tomcat PUT Upload Vulnerability
Most developers think of file uploads as a normal application feature. Users upload: Profile...
The HTTP Header That Could Execute Linux Commands: Understanding Shellshock
Dev.to · Arashad Dodhiya 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 4w ago
The HTTP Header That Could Execute Linux Commands: Understanding Shellshock
Imagine you visit a website. Nothing unusual. Your browser sends a request. The server...
One Vulnerable Parameter, Full Server Access: Understanding the Webmin Command Injection Vulnerability
Dev.to · Arashad Dodhiya 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 4w ago
One Vulnerable Parameter, Full Server Access: Understanding the Webmin Command Injection Vulnerability
Most people think hacking requires complex malware, zero-days, and Hollywood-style techniques. In...
The Attacker Lives Between Your Tools
Dev.to · Eldor Zufarov 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 4w ago
The Attacker Lives Between Your Tools
Why your SAST, DAST, and SCA each see a clean report — and you still get breached Every tool...
Digital Signatures and HMAC
Dev.to · Aviral Srivastava 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 4w ago
Digital Signatures and HMAC
Signing the Digital Word: A Deep Dive into Digital Signatures and HMAC Imagine you're...
How to Scan for Hardcoded Secrets in a Node.js Project (GitHub Actions Guide)
Dev.to · Chintan Shah 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 4w ago
How to Scan for Hardcoded Secrets in a Node.js Project (GitHub Actions Guide)
Hardcoded API keys in source code are one of the most common security mistakes in Node.js projects....
Supply-Chain Sirens and Agent Upgrade Fever
Dev.to · Adam 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 4w ago
Supply-Chain Sirens and Agent Upgrade Fever
This week opens with a full-on supply-chain thriller: Ars Technica details TeamPCP poisoning hundreds...
Web Security Basics Every Developer Must Know (2026)
Dev.to · Alex Chen 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 4w ago
Web Security Basics Every Developer Must Know (2026)
Web Security Basics Every Developer Must Know (2026) Security isn't a feature you add...
Web Security: OWASP Top 10 and How to Fix Them (2026)
Dev.to · Alex Chen 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 4w ago
Web Security: OWASP Top 10 and How to Fix Them (2026)
Web Security: OWASP Top 10 and How to Fix Them (2026) Security isn't a feature you add...
From POC to Patch: Analyzing the Contest Gallery 28.1.4 Vulnerability
Dev.to · cardoso 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 4w ago
From POC to Patch: Analyzing the Contest Gallery 28.1.4 Vulnerability
The Contest Gallery WordPress plugin, version 28.1.4, contains a critical Boolean-Blind SQL Injection...