Cybersecurity

I spend part of my week watching what apps say to the internet, and most of them say more than they need to. A PDF viewer that calls a… Continue reading on Medi

Most apps encrypt data in transit, forget it at rest, and never even think about data in use. Here’s where your secrets quietly walk out… Continue reading on Le

Most apps encrypt data in transit, forget it at rest, and never even think about data in use. Here’s where your secrets quietly walk out… Continue reading on Le

Static triage, string extraction, AI full analysis, ATT&CK pivots, IOC enrichment, and detection engineering — all from one self-hosted… Continue reading on Med

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...

A high-severity flaw in Amazon Q Developer allowed a malicious code repository to silently execute commands on a developer’s machine and steal their AWS credent

WannaCry remains one of the most significant case studies in automated threat propagation. While much of the industry focus historically… Continue reading on Me

Hands on lessons in ethical hacking, penetration testing, and vulnerability assessment at Uganda Christian University Continue reading on Medium »

Break all security and compromise the machine. Continue reading on Medium »

Passkeys are making passwords feel old, but hardware security keys still have a role. Continue reading on Mac O’Clock »

Cybersecurity often sounds like a world of dark screens, hidden codes, silent attackers, and complex tools. From the outside, it can look… Continue reading on M

s of mid-2025 there was no confirmed in-the-wild victim, only researcher proofs-of-concept. The honest part: the exploits are trivial, the… Continue reading on

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

Theory is a comfortable place to start, but in cybersecurity, comfort is an illusion. You can read about threat frameworks or study… Continue reading on Medium

How learned encoders are turning ordinary images into adaptive, undetectable carriers — and what that means for security Continue reading on Medium »

Cybercrime is no longer a distant threat that only affects banks, hospitals, and government agencies. It’s a daily operational reality for… Continue reading on

Microsoft says latest attack targets Leo Platform and RStreams packages, harvesting creds and going after more maintainers

Cybersecurity is far more than simply operating security tools or following technical procedures. It is a discipline that requires a deep… Continue reading on M

If you’re running AI workflows in n8n that touch real customer data — emails, phone numbers, account IDs, health records — that data is… Continue reading on Med

The attack surface didn’t grow linearly when we added AI to microservices — it multiplied. Here’s everything you need to know to secure it. Continue reading on

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

Why frontend teams keep getting burned by supply chain attacks and the exact CI controls that stop them cold. Continue reading on Medium »

Why frontend teams keep getting burned by supply chain attacks and the exact CI controls that stop them cold. Continue reading on Medium »

Brute forcing a 4-digit PIN using a bash loop and Netcat and why understanding how to automate credential testing is a core skill in both… Continue reading on M

Imagine you own a house. Somewhere on the front door, there’s a mail slot built so the mailman can drop letters through. Continue reading on Medium »

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...

Access Control Vulnerabilities — APPRENTICE Continue reading on Medium »

Digital payments have transformed how businesses operate. From online shopping and subscription services to digital banking and fintech… Continue reading on Med

There is a distinction that a significant number of Nigerian organisations are currently getting wrong, and it is costing them in ways… Continue reading on Medi

A comparative breakdown of the top threat intelligence platforms in 2026 — including Cyble Vision, CrowdStrike Falcon Intelligence… Continue reading on Medium »

The term Social Media Girls Forum is widely searched by users who want to understand what it means, whether it is safe, and what risks are… Continue reading on

A field dispatch from the Google × ISC2 agent-security session — and the question its best answer never reached. Continue reading on Medium »

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

Hello, this is Penta Security. Continue reading on Medium »

Hi Everyone! This one started as a simple permission check… but turned into a full role manipulation vulnerability inside a SaaS platform… Continue reading on M

MCP Security: What I Learned Securing My MCP Server After 95 Production Outages When I started building Papers, my MCP knowledge base server three years ago, I

60% of my $312 Anthropic bill last month came from a single bug: an MCP router cache key that was missing a tenant ID. The fix was literally this: // before con

Hi 21 m here fresher should I focus on cybersecurity as an career and how should I begin . Saw an couple of roadmaps on YouTube but did not get an clear underst

I seem to have come across a new virus. A family member was browsing and got snagged by a captcha trick. Basically, it was a "paste this into powershell" situat

Here’s the cleaned-up version: Continue reading on Medium »

The Alarming Truth About Online Privacy: How Promphy AI Can Be Your Safeguard The recent "Papers, Please" internet crackdown has sent shockwaves across the glob

In this lab, the website has a DOM-based XSS vulnerability using a hashchange event. Continue reading on Medium »

Passkeys are not just a convenience feature. They are a serious phishing-resistant upgrade, but they do not make password managers… Continue reading on Medium »

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