Initial Information

As always, we start off with an nmap scan.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the way businesses operate and how professionals work. From customer service and…

If you work in Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) or manage a Security Operations Center (SOC), you already know the truth…

Introduction

1. Introduction

By Maha Aledresi

Understanding GraphQL architecture, reconnaissance techniques, and common security vulnerabilities.

Why Does Account Takeover Detection Miss Residential Proxies? The IPs behind modern credential stuffing look exactly like your customers. Here is the one signal that tells them apart. Account …

If you’ve read any of my writing here, thank you — it means a lot.

Web Application Firewalls have been built around the same idea for decades: inspect the request, match it against known attack patterns…

One of the fundamental principles of API security is ensuring that applications expose only the information that users genuinely need.

Rethinking API Security Through Behavioral Intelligence, Anomaly Detection, and AI-Powered Reasoning

In the world of bug bounty hunting, we often talk about complex exploit chains or fancy RCEs. But sometimes, the most dangerous…

From Detection to Exploitation — Breaking Modern Web Application Firewalls

A step-by-step walkthrough of a Reflected XSS discovery, from an unusual URL to an independent security advisory.

In the previous part we made a lab with vulnerabilities that, at least to me, is one of the coolest. Today we’re building a lab that can be…

In 1998, a researcher named Jeff Forristal published a paper showing that you could manipulate a website’s database just by typing the…

A hostname allowlist helps at input time. The real attack starts after your server sends the request.

When the web application fetches things on your behalf — and you realize you can control what it fetches. Part 1 of the SSRF series.

漏洞摘要 該漏洞在 2026 年 5 月底揭露，根據 cybersecuritynews 報導，該漏洞是因為在 Notepad++ 在 v8.9.6（含）以前的版本中，存在設定檔解析缺乏輸入驗證的命令執行漏洞，由於標準安裝版會去讀取…