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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
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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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Demystifying Zero-Knowledge Proofs: Constructing a ZK-SNARK Verifier from First Principles
Dev.to · Ebendttl 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Demystifying Zero-Knowledge Proofs: Constructing a ZK-SNARK Verifier from First Principles
A mathematical deep-dive into Rank-1 Constraint Systems, Quadratic Arithmetic Programs, and implementing a cryptographic SNARK verifier in TypeScript.
Hello DEV! I'm Plugecon — security developer
Dev.to · Plugecon 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Hello DEV! I'm Plugecon — security developer
Hey DEV community! I'm Plugecon, a security-focused developer working with C/C++, Python, PHP and...
Securing S3 Bucket Policies: Public Access, Conditions, and Common Mistakes
Dev.to · Shieldly 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Securing S3 Bucket Policies: Public Access, Conditions, and Common Mistakes
Originally published at shieldly.io/blog. S3 bucket policies are written once and forgotten. They...
Implementing Chat End-to-End Encryption (E2EE): A Technical Guide to X3DH and Double Ratchet
Dev.to · Nexconn 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Implementing Chat End-to-End Encryption (E2EE): A Technical Guide to X3DH and Double Ratchet
Claims of "security" are everywhere, but very few chat APIs actually walk the walk. Most offerings...
How I built ZeroAudit — AI-powered SOC 2 compliance automation with AWS DynamoDB and Vercel
Dev.to · Dmytro Mazurenko 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
How I built ZeroAudit — AI-powered SOC 2 compliance automation with AWS DynamoDB and Vercel
SOC 2 Type II audits are painful. Auditors want evidence for 42 controls — who has access, are...
Software Supply Chain Security (SLSA)
Dev.to · Aviral Srivastava 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Software Supply Chain Security (SLSA)
Fortifying the Foundation: Navigating the Wild World of Software Supply Chain Security...
The Security Bug Every Node.js Developer Ships to Production
Dev.to · Lolo 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
The Security Bug Every Node.js Developer Ships to Production
Last year I was doing a code review for a startup. Everything looked fine on the surface, clean code,...
Secrets sprawl: how we cleaned up 412 leaked tokens and stopped the latency bleed
Dev.to · isabelle dubuis 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Secrets sprawl: how we cleaned up 412 leaked tokens and stopped the latency bleed
When a CI pipeline failed at 02:13 AM on March 3, we discovered that 412 distinct API tokens had been...
Why your reCAPTCHA v3 score is low — and how to actually raise it
Dev.to · Bassem Shahin 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Why your reCAPTCHA v3 score is low — and how to actually raise it
reCAPTCHA v3 doesn't show a puzzle — it scores your whole session 0.0–1.0. Here's what actually drives a low score (IP, fingerprint, behavior) and how to raise
Building Trust Into Authentication: Practical Access Control Patterns for Modern Apps
Dev.to · Samiat Akande 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Building Trust Into Authentication: Practical Access Control Patterns for Modern Apps
Most apps think they are secure because they have login pages. But authentication is only the first...
Before You Hack Anything — How Penetration Testers Define Scope and Rules of Engagement
Dev.to · Khalif AL Mahmud 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Before You Hack Anything — How Penetration Testers Define Scope and Rules of Engagement
Most people think penetration testing starts with running tools — Nmap, Metasploit, Burp Suite. But...
Why Your Browser Should Do the Heavy Lifting: A Guide to Local Data Sanitization
Dev.to · will.indie 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Why Your Browser Should Do the Heavy Lifting: A Guide to Local Data Sanitization
Stop Uploading Your Sensitive Data to Sketchy Websites Just to Trim a File If you have...
Monorepo Dependency Security — Vulnerability Scanning Across Packages
Dev.to · Vulert 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Monorepo Dependency Security — Vulnerability Scanning Across Packages
A monorepo can look like one repository, but security teams should treat it as many applications...
Should Your App Adopt Passkeys?
Dev.to · Developer Service 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Should Your App Adopt Passkeys?
Someone on your leadership team asked a reasonable question: should we adopt passkeys? You searched...
How I Used Wireshark to Dissect a Real TCP Connection — From Handshake to Teardown
Dev.to · Khalif AL Mahmud 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
How I Used Wireshark to Dissect a Real TCP Connection — From Handshake to Teardown
Most people who study networking learn TCP from diagrams and textbooks. But there is a real...
Your Database Will Be Breached Someday. The Question Is: Will Passwords Be Inside?
Dev.to · Keyur Gohil 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Your Database Will Be Breached Someday. The Question Is: Will Passwords Be Inside?
Most developers think password hashing is about authentication. It's not. Authentication is just a...
Stop treating security training as a yearly compliance checkbox
Dev.to · Renato Marinho 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Stop treating security training as a yearly compliance checkbox
Stop treating security training as a yearly chore. Learn how to use MCP to bridge the gap between vulnerabilities and developer education in real-time.
HackTheBox: Nexus Writeup
Dev.to · Yogeshwar Peela 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
HackTheBox: Nexus Writeup
Executive Summary This writeup documents the complete exploitation chain for the Nexus...
N Green Checks Can Be One Bit: Counting Independence You Can Actually Check
Dev.to · Colin Easton 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
N Green Checks Can Be One Bit: Counting Independence You Can Actually Check
There's a move almost every trust system makes, and it's quietly broken. You have a thing you want...
Collect the RAM before the disk: the Security+ order-of-volatility question people fail
Dev.to · TiltedLunar123 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Collect the RAM before the disk: the Security+ order-of-volatility question people fail
Here is a scenario that shows up on the SY0-701 exam in different costumes. A server is actively...
Open-Source Cybersecurity Interview Resource Seeks Community Contributions for Blue Team Content Expansion
Dev.to · Ksenia Rudneva 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Open-Source Cybersecurity Interview Resource Seeks Community Contributions for Blue Team Content Expansion
Introduction Preparing for a cybersecurity interview often entails navigating a fragmented...
How I built an end-to-end encrypted pastebin (and why the server can’t read your text)
Dev.to · slavas-dev 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
How I built an end-to-end encrypted pastebin (and why the server can’t read your text)
got annoyed that pastebin and similar sites log everything and keep your text forever, so i built one...
55,000 fake signups in one night: a bot-detection post-mortem
Dev.to · Jaime trejo 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
55,000 fake signups in one night: a bot-detection post-mortem
We sell bot detection. Last night I opened our database and found 555 pages of fake signups. This is...
🚩 Free CTF Event This Saturday — Come Learn With Us
Dev.to · Dallen Sadru 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
🚩 Free CTF Event This Saturday — Come Learn With Us
If you've ever been curious about cybersecurity but didn't know where to start, this one's for...
I Hardened Pod securityContext and Broke 9 Containers in Production
Dev.to · david 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I Hardened Pod securityContext and Broke 9 Containers in Production
capabilities.drop: [ALL] and runAsNonRoot: true passed schema validation cleanly. Within minutes of merge, nine containers — including both Postgres instances b
CVE-2026-48709: CVE-2026-48709: Missing Authorization in OliveTin ValidateArgumentType RPC Endpoint
Dev.to · CVE Reports 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
CVE-2026-48709: CVE-2026-48709: Missing Authorization in OliveTin ValidateArgumentType RPC Endpoint
CVE-2026-48709: Missing Authorization in OliveTin ValidateArgumentType RPC...
Why Your Backups Won't Save You Without a Disaster Recovery Plan
Dev.to · Isabel Smith 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Why Your Backups Won't Save You Without a Disaster Recovery Plan
Most teams feel confident once they have backups in place. The database is backed up every night....
The ISO 27001 Statement of Applicability, explained for engineers
Dev.to · ComplianceDocs 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The ISO 27001 Statement of Applicability, explained for engineers
If your startup is going for ISO 27001, the document the auditor opens first is the Statement of...
Nessus Agent 11.1.3 corrige un fallo que daba SYSTEM en Windows
Dev.to · lu1tr0n 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Nessus Agent 11.1.3 corrige un fallo que daba SYSTEM en Windows
Tenable publicó Nessus Agent 11.1.3 para corregir CVE-2026-33694, una escalada de privilegios local que permitía ejecutar código como SYSTEM en Window
We Scanned the Vibe Coding Security Scanners. Here's What We Found — Including What We Missed.
Dev.to · sehwan Moon 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
We Scanned the Vibe Coding Security Scanners. Here's What We Found — Including What We Missed.
There are now more than ten security scanners specifically targeting vibe-coded apps. That happened...
Letting an AI agent run shell commands is RCE on your machine. I fixed it with the kernel, not Docker.
Dev.to · Rani 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Letting an AI agent run shell commands is RCE on your machine. I fixed it with the kernel, not Docker.
A few weeks ago I gave my coding agent permission to run shell commands, watched it run cargo test,...
Tata Electronics Breach: Supply Chain RCE & Data Exfiltration TTPs
Dev.to · Satyam Rastogi 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Tata Electronics Breach: Supply Chain RCE & Data Exfiltration TTPs
Tata Electronics confirmed cyberattack targeting IT infrastructure with confirmed data exfiltration. Analysis of attack surface, lateral movement chai
Static API keys are the wrong primitive for agent authentication
Dev.to · Steve Emmerich 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Static API keys are the wrong primitive for agent authentication
API keys survive because they are convenient. You can generate one in a dashboard, paste it into an...
Ticketmaster Email Alias Compromised: Phishing Scams Prompt Data Breach Concerns and Security Review
Dev.to · Olga Larionova 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Ticketmaster Email Alias Compromised: Phishing Scams Prompt Data Breach Concerns and Security Review
Introduction: The Alarming Surge in Targeted Phishing Over the past week, a distinct and...
Minimus publica imágenes de contenedor con hasta 100% menos CVEs
Dev.to · lu1tr0n 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Minimus publica imágenes de contenedor con hasta 100% menos CVEs
Minimus lanza un catálogo de imágenes de contenedor endurecidas que reducen los CVEs hasta en 100% frente a las imágenes oficiales, con variantes FIPS
Your Fuzzer Is Only as Smart as Its Oracle
Dev.to · Takafumi Endo 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Your Fuzzer Is Only as Smart as Its Oracle
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
The support loop is fine, right up until crypto goes mainstream.
Dev.to · TxDesk 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The support loop is fine, right up until crypto goes mainstream.
The official help channel and the scam are the same Discord. Crypto-natives have stopped noticing....
Defeating IDOR: A Developer's Guide to Securing Object-Level Access Control
Dev.to · Waffeu Rayn 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Defeating IDOR: A Developer's Guide to Securing Object-Level Access Control
In the world of application security, some vulnerabilities require sophisticated hacking techniques,...
Post-Quantum Cryptography vs Quantum Cryptography: What’s the Difference?
Dev.to · Steve Mike 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Post-Quantum Cryptography vs Quantum Cryptography: What’s the Difference?
As the quantum era approaches, conversations around security are becoming increasingly urgent and...
The Cryptographic Doom Principle: Why Order Matters in Encrypt-and-MAC
Dev.to · Haven Messenger 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The Cryptographic Doom Principle: Why Order Matters in Encrypt-and-MAC
A system that decrypts a message before it checks whether the message is authentic has handed the...
Security Education and Awareness: Because Not Everyone Is Technical
Dev.to · Massimiliano B. 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Security Education and Awareness: Because Not Everyone Is Technical
Security Education and Awareness: Because Not Everyone Is Technical In most companies, you...
WordPress Site Hacked? Here's How to Recover It Fast
Dev.to · Amanur Rahman 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
WordPress Site Hacked? Here's How to Recover It Fast
Discovering your WordPress site has been hacked is one of the worst feelings for any website owner....
Essential Ransomware Prevention for Small Businesses: A Comprehensive Guide by Test WS
Dev.to · RV 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Essential Ransomware Prevention for Small Businesses: A Comprehensive Guide by Test WS
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Domain Lateral Movement: PTH, PTK, and PTT Hash-Based Credential Transfer
Dev.to · Excalibra 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Domain Lateral Movement: PTH, PTK, and PTT Hash-Based Credential Transfer
Abstract: This article delineates the operational workflow of the Kerberos protocol within a domain...
Top 10 Free Cybersecurity Tools You Should Be Using in 2026
Dev.to · Carrie 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Top 10 Free Cybersecurity Tools You Should Be Using in 2026
The cybersecurity tooling landscape has shifted a lot over the past few years. Open-source...
Post-Quantum Cryptography
Dev.to · Aviral Srivastava 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Post-Quantum Cryptography
The Quantum Apocalypse is Coming (Maybe): Why We Need to Talk About Post-Quantum...
Xsolis Data Breach Impacts 1.4 Million Individuals Following Phishing Attack
Dev.to · BeyondMachines 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Xsolis Data Breach Impacts 1.4 Million Individuals Following Phishing Attack
Xsolis, a healthcare technology firm, suffered a data breach affecting nearly 1.4 million people after a targeted phishing attack allowed unauthorized access to
Governance and Detection Tell You What Happened. Design Determines Whether It Matters.
Dev.to · duncan n. ndegwa 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Governance and Detection Tell You What Happened. Design Determines Whether It Matters.
The security industry built the best response tools in history. Then 144 npm packages were...