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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
Medium · Cybersecurity
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2w ago
The Dark Web Marketplace That Made Millions and Changed Cybercrime Forever
It Looked Like Amazon. It Ran on Bitcoin. And It Became One of the Biggest Cybercrime Stories Ever. Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · Cybersecurity
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2w ago
How a Broken Instagram Link Led to a Social Media Account Takeover Risk
Introduction Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · Cybersecurity
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2w ago
Deferred Procedure Calls — DPCs : A Real Deep Dive Internals, WinDbg, and Exploitation
IRQLs → KDPC internals → WinDbg live analysis → vulnerable driver code → ROP-based exploitation → BYOVD → mitigations breakdown Continue reading on Medium »
Dev.to · Fabrice
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2w ago
DorkAtlas: The Open Source Google Search Operators Library Built for Ethical Research
"The world's most comprehensive, beginner-friendly repository of Google search operators and ethical...
Medium · Cybersecurity
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2w ago
From a Simple Input Field to Stored XSS — A Realistic Bug Bounty Journey
Introduction Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · Cybersecurity
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2w ago
I Tested a Login Form and Accidentally Found Remote Code Execution
Category: Web Application Security Vulnerability Chain: SQL Injection → Database Access → Remote Code Execution Severity: Critical Status… Continue reading on M
Medium · Cybersecurity
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2w ago
Privilege Escalation via Writable Bash Script Executed by Root Cron Job
DISCLAIMER: The techniques demonstrated in this write-up are intended solely for educational purposes. Please ensure that any testing is… Continue reading on Me
Dev.to · ricco020
🔐 Cybersecurity
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2w ago
Encryption at rest vs zero-knowledge: who can actually read your cloud files
"Encrypted cloud storage" is one of the most abused phrases in tech marketing. Almost every provider...
Medium · Cybersecurity
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2w ago
ENISA — SBOM Adoption in 2026: From Security Best Practice to Regulatory Imperative (Part II)
Intro Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · Cybersecurity
🔐 Cybersecurity
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2w ago
TryHackMe — Splunk: Data Manipulation — Part 1
Room Scenario Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · Machine Learning
🔐 Cybersecurity
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2w ago
Cybersecurity Burnout Is Real — And It’s Exactly Why Smart People Keep Getting Hacked in 2026
You know everything you’re supposed to do. You’ve read the articles, downloaded the apps, set up the 2FA. So why does your gut still tell… Continue reading on M
Medium · Cybersecurity
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2w ago
“The Digital Hostage: Defeating Anonymous Extortion Networks Without Paying a Cent”
A boutique venture capitalist in Switzerland was targeted by a malicious blackmail ring threatening to flood the internet with fabricated… Continue reading on M
Medium · Cybersecurity
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2w ago
How SMEs Can Build a Minimal but Solid ISMS
An Information Security Management System (ISMS) is often presented as a large compliance machine: dozens of documents, layered approvals… Continue reading on a
Medium · Cybersecurity
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2w ago
MySQL User Defined Function Privilege escalation in Linux (Full walkthrough)
In this article we are going to talk about MySQL User Defined Function privilege escalation in Linux and how to escalate the privileges… Continue reading on Med
Medium · Cybersecurity
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2w ago
Claude Mythos Isn’t the Story. What It Reveals About Cybersecurity Is.
When Anthropic announced Claude Mythos through Project Glasswing, most of the cybersecurity industry focused on one thing: Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · Cybersecurity
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2w ago
# Why OSCP Certified No Longer Guarantees a Job (And What Actually Does)
Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · Cybersecurity
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2w ago
I Captured My Own Network Traffic With Wireshark — Here’s What I Learned (and What Broke My Brain…
I just finished CompTIA Network+ course on YouTube and the Cisco NetAcad’s Networking Basics. Good foundation but reading about protocols… Continue reading on M
Dev.to · Yogeshwar Peela
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2w ago
HackTheBox: Bamboo Writeup
Summary Bamboo is a Hackthebox machine that chains together a Squid proxy pivot, an...
Dev.to · Aniket Abhishek Soni
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2w ago
What building HIPAA-compliant lakehouses taught me about real-world encryption
Eighty-two percent of data breaches in healthcare don't happen because of a sophisticated...
Medium · Cybersecurity
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2w ago
I Built a Fake “Classified Portal” to Prank My Friends — and Accidentally Learned About Honeypot…
A few weekends ago, I built something completely useless and 100% fun: a fake “Internship Selection Tracker” that’s actually a prank web… Continue reading on Me
Medium · Cybersecurity
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2w ago
Is a Cyber Security Course in India Worth It for Working Professionals in 2026?
Many working professionals in India are interested in cybersecurity, but they often feel stuck at the starting point. Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · Cybersecurity
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2w ago
Time-Based Blind SQL Injection — Confirming and Exploiting with curl and Ghauri
A Bug Bounty Writeup | HackerOne Report Continue reading on Medium »
The Next Web AI
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2w ago
Hackers are mass-exploiting a Gravity SMTP flaw to steal API keys from 100,000 WordPress sites
Attackers are actively exploiting a vulnerability in the Gravity SMTP WordPress plugin that exposes API keys, OAuth tokens, and detailed system configuration da
Medium · Programming
🔐 Cybersecurity
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2w ago
I Hid an Entire Website Inside a Favicon, So Now I’m Worried About Your Browser
What happens when the smallest, most-ignored file on the web turns out to be a smuggling container. Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · Cybersecurity
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2w ago
I Hid an Entire Website Inside a Favicon, So Now I’m Worried About Your Browser
What happens when the smallest, most-ignored file on the web turns out to be a smuggling container. Continue reading on Medium »
Dev.to · Harrie
🔐 Cybersecurity
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2w ago
Anonymous membership proofs on Midnight: allowlists, voter rolls, and gated access
Most membership systems have the same tradeoff: to prove you belong, you have to say who you are. A...
Medium · Cybersecurity
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2w ago
REACTOR HTB WRITEUP
HACKTHEBOX SEASON 11 MACHINE 1 WRITEUP Continue reading on Medium »
The Next Web AI
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2w ago
Microsoft finds USB worm that steals cryptocurrency through clipboard hijacking and Tor
Microsoft Threat Intelligence has identified a new strain of self-propagating malware that spreads through USB drives, monitors the Windows clipboard for crypto
Dev.to · William Weiner
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
Who Is Email Security Actually Built For?
Email has one of the most mature security stacks in tech: SPF, DKIM, DMARC, BIMI, advanced spam...
Medium · Cybersecurity
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2w ago
OT Network Monitoring: The Baseline, the Alert, and the Human
You can’t catch what no one is watching Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · Cybersecurity
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2w ago
There Is No Free Lunch in Cybersecurity
“Cybercriminals don’t sell traps. They give them away.” Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · Cybersecurity
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2w ago
Havenlon Whitepaper Explained | Execution Control Philosophy (1): The Age of Execution Has Arrived
This article is based on Section 1.1, “The Age of Execution,” from the Havenlon Whitepaper v2.0. The section introduces the first… Continue reading on Medium »
Dev.to · Илья Федотов
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2w ago
I built a self-hosted DPI-resistant tunnel over TLS + WebSocket in Rust
I built BibaVPN for one reason: I did not want to hand traffic to a third-party VPN provider. It is...
Medium · Deep Learning
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2w ago
One Month In: My First Steps Into Cybersecurity
Today marks exactly one month since I started my cybersecurity journey at the Abia TechRise digital bootcamp, hosted by Learn Factory. Two… Continue reading on
Medium · Cybersecurity
🔐 Cybersecurity
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2w ago
One Month In: My First Steps Into Cybersecurity
Today marks exactly one month since I started my cybersecurity journey at the Abia TechRise digital bootcamp, hosted by Learn Factory. Two… Continue reading on
Medium · Cybersecurity
🔐 Cybersecurity
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2w ago
Building LivingOffTheLand.dev: A Practical Reference for LOLBins
When learning offensive security, red teaming, and post-exploitation techniques, one concept that appears again and again is “Living off… Continue reading on Me
Medium · Programming
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2w ago
I Spent a Week Inside a Top-Tier Web Anti-Bot Stack. Here’s What I Found.
So I went down a rabbit hole. Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · JavaScript
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2w ago
I Spent a Week Inside a Top-Tier Web Anti-Bot Stack. Here’s What I Found.
So I went down a rabbit hole. Continue reading on Medium »
Dev.to · Wang - C++ Developer
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2w ago
C++ Crash Pattern S5 — Race‑Condition Crashes: How to Diagnose and Fix Them
Why race‑condition crashes only appear under specific timing, vanish under debugging, and produce...
Dev.to · Paras Tejpal
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2w ago
Free API Detects Phishing Pages and Hidden AI Prompt Injection - Open Source
Traditional phishing detectors check URL reputation databases. New phishing sites registered 2 hours...
Medium · Cybersecurity
🔐 Cybersecurity
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2w ago
OverTheWire Bandit Walkthrough — Level 20 → 21 | 30-Day Cybersecurity Learning Journey (Day 20)
Running two terminal sessions at once to act as both client and server for a setuid binary and why understanding Unix job control and… Continue reading on Mediu
Medium · Cybersecurity
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2w ago
NRT-Bench as a Narrow-Game Model of Nuclear Plant Cyber-Security — and Why It’s Still a Toy Model…
Author: Berend Watchus. Independent AI & Cybersecurity Researcher. Continue reading on System Weakness »
Medium · Cybersecurity
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2w ago
Phishing Analysis: What Five Years on the Front Lines Has Taught Me
I’ve spent the last five years staring at suspicious emails for a living. In that time, phishing has gone from “obviously fake prince… Continue reading on Mediu
Medium · Cybersecurity
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2w ago
Day 16: Power Cookie — picoCTF Web Exploitation Writeup
A simple picoCTF web challenge where the website trusted a browser cookie a little too much. Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · Cybersecurity
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2w ago
Writing Your First SPL Query in Splunk — Beginner to SOC Analyst
Day 2 of learning and practicing my hands-on SOC learning roadmap journey: how I went from staring blank at a Splunk search bar to… Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · Cybersecurity
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2w ago
Beyond the Source Code: Navigating SAST and DAST in Modern AppSec
Why relying on just one analysis method leaves massive blind spots in your software security. Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · Cybersecurity
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2w ago
Stop Competitors from Scraping Your Data! Building a Backend Defense for Your E-commerce Store
In the world of cross-border e-commerce, malicious bot scraping leading to Meta/Google Pixel pollution is a nightmare for every seller… Continue reading on Medi
Dev.to · nikhilsharma987880-bot
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
Building an Enterprise Hybrid AI Shield: Remote OTA, Kernel Process Isolation, ChaCha20 FIM, and eBPF Distributed Mesh (Rust + C++)
Moving Beyond Static Firewalls: Elevating Cyber Aura to an Enterprise Distributed EDR...
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