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Cybersecurity
Ethical hacking, penetration testing, network security, CTFs and defensive security
Skills in this topic
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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 · Adrian Alexandru Stinga
🔐 Cybersecurity
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5d ago
Last month I saw something I haven’t seen in 18 years of dark web and underground monitoring.
The underground is changing faster than the security industry is adapting. Here’s what nearly two...

Dev.to · Ajitesh
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
5d ago
Cybersecurity Roadmap
Introduction: Cybersecurity is one of the most in-demand fields on the planet - and also one of the...

Medium · Cybersecurity
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5d ago
User Role Controlled By Request Parameter
Access Control Vulnerabilities — APPRENTICE Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · Cybersecurity
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5d ago
Payment Fraud Is Evolving — Is Your Business Ready?
Digital payments have transformed how businesses operate. From online shopping and subscription services to digital banking and fintech… Continue reading on Med
Medium · Cybersecurity
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5d ago
The Difference Between Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Compliance.
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
Medium · Cybersecurity
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5d ago
Top Threat Intelligence Platforms 2026 [Analyst-Rated] — Cyble Knowledge Hub
A comparative breakdown of the top threat intelligence platforms in 2026 — including Cyble Vision, CrowdStrike Falcon Intelligence… Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · Cybersecurity
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5d ago
Social Media Girls Forum: How It Works and Why It’s Trending
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

Medium · Cybersecurity
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5d ago
Permissions Secure the Agent. The Governance Artifact Sits Above Them.
A field dispatch from the Google × ISC2 agent-security session — and the question its best answer never reached. Continue reading on Medium »

Dev.to · Teller
🔐 Cybersecurity
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5d ago
MCP Trust Pack: a security layer for MCP tool calls
MCP Trust Pack: a security layer for MCP tool calls MCP makes it easy for agents to call...

Medium · Cybersecurity
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5d ago
Cloudbric Mask Image De-identification API Service Launch
Hello, this is Penta Security. Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · Cybersecurity
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5d ago
$1,100 Privilege Escalation: Group Leader Can Promote Anyone via Hidden Parameter
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
Dev.to AI
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
5d ago
MCP Security: What I Learned Securing My MCP Server After 95 Production Outages
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
Dev.to AI
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
5d ago
A one-line cache key bug cost me $187/month and leaked advertiser data across tenants
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
Reddit r/cybersecurity
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5d ago
Need help
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
Reddit r/cybersecurity
🔐 Cybersecurity
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5d ago
What am I dealing with?
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
Medium · Cybersecurity
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5d ago
FAT32 Filesystem Forensics: A Complete DFIR Walkthrough
Here’s the cleaned-up version: Continue reading on Medium »
Dev.to AI
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⚡ AI Lesson
5d ago
EXPOSED: The Shocking 'Papers, Please' Internet Crackdown: How Your Online Privacy Will Be Decimated Forever
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
Medium · Cybersecurity
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5d ago
PortSwigger : DOM XSS in jQuery Selector Sink Using a Hashchange Event
In this lab, the website has a DOM-based XSS vulnerability using a hashchange event. Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · Cybersecurity
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5d ago
Password Managers vs. Passkeys: What Should You Actually Use in 2026?
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 »

Dev.to · Devanshu Biswas
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
5d ago
I Built a JWT Playground That Re-signs Tokens With Real HMAC-SHA256
Most JWT explainers cheat. They show you header.payload.signature, point at the third part, and say...

Medium · Cybersecurity
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5d ago
WhatsApp as a Weapon: Detecting the VBScript-to-ManageEngine RMM Campaign with EQL
A practical detection guide for SOC teams hunting this active campaign in Elastic SIEM Continue reading on Medium »
InfoQ AI/ML
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5d ago
How Cloudflare Solved a Congestion Bug in quiche
Cloudflare has recently shared how they uncovered an issue in their Rust implementation of CUBIC, a congestion controller algorithm, which prevented it from rec

Dev.to · Tommy
🔐 Cybersecurity
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5d ago
What actually visits a self-hosted website in 2026? Humans, AI crawlers, and 6,400 automated attacks
I run a small self-hosted website on a Raspberry Pi 4B at home. A few weeks ago I started wondering:...

Dev.to · Dwayne McDaniel
🔐 Cybersecurity
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5d ago
Protecting Developers Means Protecting Their Secrets
When most people think of "Enterprise Security," they immediately think of hardened data centers,...

Dev.to · Spicy
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
5d ago
Your Baby Monitor's Biggest Security Flaw Isn't Hackers. It's the Company That Built It.
In May 2026, a French ethical hacker named Sammy Azdoufal bought a baby monitor off Amazon and spent...

Medium · Cybersecurity
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5d ago
Volt Typhoon Room — TryHackMe Walkthrough (Splunk)
In the world of defensive security, detecting sophisticated Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) requires a deep understanding of stealth… Continue reading on Med

Dev.to · Ebendttl
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
5d 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.

Dev.to · Plugecon
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
5d 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...

Medium · Cybersecurity
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⚡ AI Lesson
6d ago
The Silent Guardians: Inside the World of Cybersecurity Professionals
In a world powered by technology, every click, transaction, and login leaves a digital footprint. From online banking and social media to… Continue reading on M

Dev.to · Nexconn
🔐 Cybersecurity
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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...

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,...

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...

Medium · Cybersecurity
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6d ago
Flutter Developer + Cyber Security = A More Powerful You
Why doing both is not confusion — it’s your biggest competitive edge Continue reading on Medium »

Dev.to · Vulert
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⚡ 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...

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...

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...

Medium · Cybersecurity
🔐 Cybersecurity
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6d ago
Cyber Security Career Guide 2026: Salary, Skills, Certifications & Job Opportunities in India
The digital world is growing rapidly, and so are cyber threats. From multinational companies to government organizations and startups… Continue reading on Mediu

Medium · Cybersecurity
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6d ago
How to Know if a Website Is Safe Before You Click (2026 Guide)
A few months ago, one of my friends was looking for a new pair of wireless earbuds. He found a website offering a huge discount — almost… Continue reading on Me

Medium · Cybersecurity
🔐 Cybersecurity
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6d ago
Cryptocurrency Did Not Create Ransomware, It Industrialized It
The Floppy Disk in the Mailbox Continue reading on Medium »

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...

Medium · Cybersecurity
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⚡ AI Lesson
6d ago
Your WordPress Site Was Hacked: Why It Happens, How to Clean It Up, and How to Never Get Hit Again
A real story of a small business that lost thousands in days — and the complete playbook to recover and protect your site. Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · Cybersecurity
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6d ago
Panduan Memilih Platform Online yang Aman dan Terpercaya untuk Pengguna Baru
Di era digital yang semakin berkembang, pengguna memiliki banyak pilihan platform online untuk berbagai kebutuhan. Namun, tidak semua… Continue reading on Mediu
Medium · Cybersecurity
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6d ago
LDAP Explained: The Invisible Technology That Helps Computers Find Everything
Knowledge should be gated by curiosity, not paywalls. If you don’t have a Medium subscription, use the free link below and enjoy the… Continue reading on Medi

Medium · Cybersecurity
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6d ago
FortiBleed Campaign Insights: Understanding Credential Theft Through Internet-Exposed FortiGate…
In June 2026, the FortiBleed campaign came to light after a dataset containing a large volume of login information associated with… Continue reading on OSINT Te
Dev.to AI
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
6d ago
Private Internet Access vs Mullvad VPN: Which VPN Should You Actually Use in 2026?
Look, most VPN comparisons are mind-numbingly boring—they just list features and call it a day. But when you're actually running a business, choosing the right
Dev.to AI
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
6d ago
Hotspot Shield vs Norton VPN Pricing 2026: An Honest, Data-Backed Comparison
Want to know the dirty secret of VPN comparisons? Most of them are written by people who never actually paid for the product. I've tested more VPNs than I can c

Medium · Cybersecurity
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6d ago
Your Key to a Private and Open Internet — NordVPN
Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · Programming
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6d ago
A Claude Code Workflow for the OWASP Top 10
I shipped a Firestore rules change at 11 PM, ran my security-reviewer subagent against the diff, and it caught a request.auth.uid… Continue reading on Medium »
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