Cybersecurity

When we use applications like Gmail, Netflix, or online banking, we rarely think about the security...

Today I'm excited to announce the first stable release of Siyarix (v1.0.0)! Siyarix is an...

After I got targeted by a fake-job-interview repo designed to steal my keys, I built a scanner that...

I built a 21-tool developer toolkit that runs entirely in your browser. No servers. No sign-ups. No...

"To defend a system, you must first think like the attacker." I'll tell you this: the browser is...

When most people think about anti-cheat, they think about kernel drivers, signature scanning, or...

For more than two decades, when your phone introduced itself to a cell tower it could be made to...

Stop context-switching between security dashboards and your IDE. Learn how using an MCP server for Contrast Security can transform vulnerability triage from a m

What Happened: ShinyHunters Found a Door Oracle Left Open ShinyHunters, one of the most...

What Actually Happened: 73 Signed Packages, One Nasty Surprise Late last week, 73 open...

In the world of web traffic, there’s a simple rule: if it looks like a regular user, walks like a...

What if I told you that the password you type during login is never actually compared with the one...

Introduction Security issues in cloud infrastructure often start as small configuration...

I built Grid Audit, a tool that reviews Midnight code and then lets you certify that review on-chain....

🛡️ Your Computer Got Infected — Now What? A Developer's Survival Guide to Malware...

Listen up. If you’re still playing by the rules Apple wrote for you, you aren’t testing security....

Most cloud platforms that need access to your infrastructure start with the same onboarding step:...

BannerGrapV2 is a blazing-fast, multi-protocol banner grabbing and vulnerability discovery tool written in Go. Real-world commands for pentesters, red teamers,

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

As developers, we often copy and paste sensitive data into online tools without thinking twice. JWT...

In my first post in this series I said the next one would go deep on the handshake. This is it. If...

Handala's Cal Water intrusion demonstrates classic attacker posturing: threat inflation to maximize pressure during extortion. Forensic analysis revea

When I first loaded msdsrv.exe into IDA Pro, I had no idea what I was dealing with. No strings, no...

A reproducible walkthrough of CVE-2022-26377, a request smuggling desync in Apache mod_proxy_ajp, plus the upstream patch and config hardening that close it.

A 78% false negative rate means automated AI scanners are missing real vulnerabilities. Understand why these tools fail and how to build a defense-in-depth stra

The underground is changing faster than the security industry is adapting. Here’s what nearly two...

Introduction: Cybersecurity is one of the most in-demand fields on the planet - and also one of the...

MCP Trust Pack: a security layer for MCP tool calls MCP makes it easy for agents to call...

Most JWT explainers cheat. They show you header.payload.signature, point at the third part, and say...

I run a small self-hosted website on a Raspberry Pi 4B at home. A few weeks ago I started wondering:...

When most people think of "Enterprise Security," they immediately think of hardened data centers,...

In May 2026, a French ethical hacker named Sammy Azdoufal bought a baby monitor off Amazon and spent...

A mathematical deep-dive into Rank-1 Constraint Systems, Quadratic Arithmetic Programs, and implementing a cryptographic SNARK verifier in TypeScript.

Hey DEV community! I'm Plugecon, a security-focused developer working with C/C++, Python, PHP and...

Claims of "security" are everywhere, but very few chat APIs actually walk the walk. Most offerings...

Last year I was doing a code review for a startup. Everything looked fine on the surface, clean code,...

When a CI pipeline failed at 02:13 AM on March 3, we discovered that 412 distinct API tokens had been...

Most people think penetration testing starts with running tools — Nmap, Metasploit, Burp Suite. But...

A monorepo can look like one repository, but security teams should treat it as many applications...

Someone on your leadership team asked a reasonable question: should we adopt passkeys? You searched...

Most people who study networking learn TCP from diagrams and textbooks. But there is a real...

There's a move almost every trust system makes, and it's quietly broken. You have a thing you want...

got annoyed that pastebin and similar sites log everything and keep your text forever, so i built one...

We sell bot detection. Last night I opened our database and found 555 pages of fake signups. This is...

Tata Electronics confirmed cyberattack targeting IT infrastructure with confirmed data exfiltration. Analysis of attack surface, lateral movement chai

A migration passed every check — then I saw the path it took: DROP TABLE; CREATE TABLE. Randomness doesn't find bugs, oracles do. What AI made cheap in dev-tool

Discovering your WordPress site has been hacked is one of the worst feelings for any website owner....

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