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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

Dev.to · Mark0
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
From Langflow to Monero: Inside CVE-2026-33017 Cryptominer
This article details a cryptocurrency-mining campaign exploiting CVE-2026-33017, an unauthenticated...

Dev.to · Austin Vance
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
MCP Security Starts After Tool Approval | Focused Labs
MCP security best practices need runtime drift detection, capability manifests, quarantine, and per-call evidence after tool approval.
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Dev.to · Aarav
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
ShadowCrypt [Web] E2E Encrypted Messaging platform for the Privacy-Conscious
ShadowCrypt [Web] is a more secure successor of one of my previous projects, "ShadowCrypt". Here,...

Medium · Cybersecurity
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
From Foothold to SYSTEM: Bypassing Windows UAC with UACMe
I recently completed a INE practical lab on Windows privilege escalation and wanted to share a quick step-by-step breakdown. Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · Cybersecurity
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Demystifying the Internet’s Address Book: Why You Don’t Have to Memorize 10.10.10.10
Imagine if, every time you wanted to order a late-night burrito or check your bank account, you had to memorize a string of random numbers… Continue reading on
Medium · Cybersecurity
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Why Poor Evidence Creates Slow Scam Response
Slow scam response is often blamed on staffing, regulation, platform delays, cross-sector coordination, or the speed at which scammers… Continue reading on Medi
Medium · Cybersecurity
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
So… what does OIIAI have to do with cybersecurity?
Recently, while exploring a web game on browser (https://oiiai.cat/games), I came across a curious UI behavior: Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · Cybersecurity
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
The Silent Data Leak: Hardening Production Gateways Against GraphQL Introspection
The paradigm shift toward dynamic database architectures has fundamentally changed how modern web services communicate. For years, system… Continue reading on M

Dev.to · m-naoki-m
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
What the JSON Formatter Leaks Taught Me About Browser-Side Tools
A formatter leak that should change how you pick tools In late November 2025, security...

Medium · Cybersecurity
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
¿Qué hacer si te han estafado con criptomonedas?
Subtitle: Las transacciones blockchain suelen ser irreversibles, pero actuar rápidamente puede ayudarte a proteger tus cuentas, conservar… Continue reading on M

Medium · Startup
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
The MSSP Market Has 40,000 Providers. Here Is Why Almost None of Them Are Built for Your Startup.
How the managed security industry ignored an entire segment of the market, and what T-Mat Global Technologies built to fill it. Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · Cybersecurity
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
When the Signature No Longer Fits the Packet
A new quantum executive order quietly sets a deadline that breaks DNSSEC, not just TLS. Continue reading on Stackademic »

Medium · Cybersecurity
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Why Traditional Bot Protection Is Struggling in the Age of AI
The internet is changing faster than ever. Advances in artificial intelligence have made it possible for bots to behave more like humans… Continue reading on Me

Medium · Cybersecurity
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Vulnerabilidades Basadas en el DOM: Guía Técnica de Explotación y Mitigación
Aprende a identificar, explotar y mitigar vulnerabilidades DOM (XSS, CSPP y DOM Clobbering) con metodologías avanzadas de Bug Bounty. Continue reading on Medium

Medium · Cybersecurity
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Analysis of a Domestic Website Compromise and Its Abuse for Black Hat SEO Activities
Executive Summary Continue reading on Medium »

Dev.to · TiltedLunar123
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Mitigate, transfer, avoid, accept: the Security+ risk response people keep mixing up
If you have started working through the risk management material for SY0-701, you have probably hit a...
Reddit r/cybersecurity
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
notificação push
Is it possible to embed malware in a PDF to force push notifications to appear on Android or iOS? Example: Sending a purchase invoice as a PDF; when opening the

Medium · Cybersecurity
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Cybersecurity Lab
# Building an Active Directory Security Lab — Part 1: Deploying the Domain Controller Continue reading on Medium »

Reddit r/cybersecurity
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Klue says hackers stole credential from 2022 that led to customer data breaches | TechCrunch
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Medium · Cybersecurity
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Building a Vulnerability Management and Remediation Homelab with Nessus
To strengthen my practical understanding of vulnerability management, I built a homelab using Nessus Essentials, Windows 10, and VMware… Continue reading on Med

Medium · Cybersecurity
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Instagram Is Down Again And the Real Story Isn’t the Outage, It’s What Happens in the 30 Minutes…
A cybersecurity perspective on platform failures, the scams that ride in behind them, and why “is it down?” is the wrong question to be… Continue reading on Med
Medium · Cybersecurity
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
I Read 40+ Cybersecurity Books So You Don’t Have To.
There’s a strange ritual every aspiring security professional goes through. Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · Python
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Simulating and Detecting Network Threats: A Hands-On Dive into TCP SYN Floods and Snort IDS
Network availability and perimeter defense are foundational to any corporate infrastructure. But to truly defend a network, you have to… Continue reading on Med

Medium · Cybersecurity
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Simulating and Detecting Network Threats: A Hands-On Dive into TCP SYN Floods and Snort IDS
Network availability and perimeter defense are foundational to any corporate infrastructure. But to truly defend a network, you have to… Continue reading on Med
Reddit r/cybersecurity
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
New Ticketmaster breach?
Over the past week, an email alias I use exclusively for Ticketmaster has started receiving multiple phishing and scam messages. Since that address has never be

Dev.to · MOHAMMED AYAAN
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
PhantomScan — My Pentesting Toolkit by Mohammed Ayaan
Hi, I'm Mohammed Ayaan — Full Stack AI Engineer and Ethical Hacker from Hyderabad, India. TryHackMe...
Medium · Cybersecurity
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
The Step-by-Step Reality of a Silent Cyber Attack
What Actually Happens During the 194 Days Nobody Notices — 2025 Reality Check Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · Cybersecurity
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
SECURITY TIP: How to Spot Phishing Emails
Your bank didn’t send that email, neither did Netflix, nor did your boss! Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · Cybersecurity
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Yogesh Mittal of Red Hat Joins CVE Board
The CVE Program is pleased to welcome Yogesh Mittal of Red Hat as the newest member of the CVE Board. Yogesh brings nearly 20 years of… Continue reading on Medi

Medium · Cybersecurity
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
The Cybersecurity Engineer of 2030 Will Look Nothing Like Today’s
The death of the Human API in Cybersecurity Continue reading on AWS in Plain English »

Medium · DevOps
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Stop Letting Hackers Knock on Your Front Door: How to Secure Root SSH Access
Every script kiddie, automated botnet, and bad actor on the internet knows one absolute fact about your Linux server: it has an account… Continue reading on Med

Medium · LLM
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
The Supply Chain You Cannot See
You approved a calculator. Its hidden tool description told the model to read your SSH keys. · Architecting the AI Coworker · 10/22 Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · Machine Learning
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
I Found a Free APK for a Paid App. Here’s How I Checked If It Would Steal My Data.
Using old-school malware analysis tricks to protect my phone from a suspicious download. Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · Data Science
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
I Found a Free APK for a Paid App. Here’s How I Checked If It Would Steal My Data.
Using old-school malware analysis tricks to protect my phone from a suspicious download. Continue reading on Medium »
Reddit r/cybersecurity
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Scattered Spider Hackers Plead Guilty on Day 1 of Trial
Two men pleaded guilty in the United Kingdom this week to criminal charges stemming from an August 2024 cyberattack that crippled Transport for London, the enti
Medium · Cybersecurity
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
The 5 Questions a Network Security Risk Assessment Answers for an SMB
A network security risk assessment identifies the weak points in your business network, scores each one by likelihood and business impact… Continue reading on M

Medium · Cybersecurity
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
The Hacker Who Was Once on the FBI’s Most Wanted List
How one of the world’s most famous hackers went from evading authorities to helping companies improve their security. Continue reading on Medium »

Dev.to · Akilesh
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Unified Security Platform vs. Buying 5 Separate Tools — What Actually Makes Sense for SMEs
The typical SME security stack looks like this: One tool for vulnerability scanning A separate tool...
Dev.to AI
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
The implementation of secure
The implementation of secure, off-site data replication protocols guarantees that your historical profile data remains safe against unexpected localized power f
Reddit r/cybersecurity
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
NIST’s NVD still down.
3 days ago, I posted about ongoing issues with the NIST NVD API. At the time, several people reported experiencing the same problem. Unfortunately, the situatio

Dev.to · Eric-Octavian
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Five features that turn an OS into a trust platform: Panic, Dead Man’s Switch, E2E messenger, Vault UI, and Secure Boot attestation in IONA OS
An operating system should not just execute programs. It should protect the person using it. Most...

Dev.to · byteguard
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
15 Best Free Security Tools in 2026
The best free security tools in 2026 for network scanning, web testing, password auditing, and monitoring. All open source and battle-tested.

Medium · DevOps
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
How We Made Our Application Quantum-Safe in 3 Weeks (And You Can Too) using IBM Quantum Safe…
A practical guide to quantum-safe migration using IBM Quantum Safe Explorer and AI-powered remediation Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · Cybersecurity
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Breaking the Filter: How I Unlocked Hidden Application Data via SQL Injection
When building or working with enterprise applications, we often rely on database logic to enforce business rules. For example, ensuring… Continue reading on Med

Medium · Cybersecurity
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
OverTheWire Bandit Walkthrough — Level 22 → 23 | 30-Day Cybersecurity Learning Journey (Day 22)
Reading a cron script that uses dynamic MD5-hashed filenames and why understanding scripting logic rather than just following instructions… Continue reading on

Medium · Cybersecurity
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Your Business Firewall is Probably Lying to You (Here’s Why Charlotte Companies are Switching to…
Most business owners treat their network firewall like a smoke detector. You buy it, you stick it on the ceiling (or in the server closet)… Continue reading on

Medium · Cybersecurity
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
One Pixel Off: My Second Clickjacking Lab on PortSwigger
After getting through the first clickjacking lab, I moved to a slightly more advanced variant: this one prefills a form value straight… Continue reading on Medi

Medium · Cybersecurity
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Hiding in Plain Sight: My First Clickjacking Lab on PortSwigger
After finishing all nine labs in the XSS track, I moved on to a completely different category: Clickjacking. This first lab pairs a delete… Continue reading on
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