Three challenges. Three overlooked developer mistakes. One clear takeaway: what you leave exposed will eventually be discovered.

Picture this: you’re three YouTube tutorials deep into “ethical hacking for beginners,” you’ve installed Kali Linux, and you genuinely…

AppSec as a Force Multiplier, not a Gatekeeper

The Discovery

Room Overview

A PortSwigger writeup series that looks at every lab from both sides of the wire

When approaching bug bounty programs or security assessments, one of the most overlooked areas is JavaScript files. These files often hide…

1. Initial Reconnaissance

Network Traffic Analysis and Forensics to Identify C2 Channels, ARP Spoofing, and Data Exfiltration Techniques

Platform: TryHackMe
Room: Computer Types
Room URL: https://tryhackme.com/room/computertypes
Difficulty: Easy
Please attempt the room…

A startup CTO once hired me because their primary dashboard was taking 14 seconds to load. He told me, “I don’t understand, I added an…

I was shopping for a t-shirt. My proxy was quietly running. One buried JS file later — I had write access to their entire Order Management…

A first-person guide to finding hidden inputs, chasing cache poisoning bugs, and levelling up your recon game — written for hunters at…

If you’ve been doing bug bounty for a while, you’ve probably heard this:

A provisional specification has already been submitted, and an application number is already in place.

A provisional specification has already been submitted, and an application number is already in place.

web_Junkiness

There is no soft way to say this.

Overview

Set up a SOC lab with Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Fleet Server.

Explore Elastic Defend telemetry and alerts to investigate endpoint activity.