Most engineering teams focus on access token expiry. The credential that can silently own your users’ accounts for 30 days is quietly…

Free account → full data breach → 1,630 private documents → CEO account takeover. All before my coffee got cold.

One click, eight seconds, nine webhook hits. It started with a single bracket character that broke an Akamai WAF rule.

The grand finale: smuggling command output inside a DNS query to steal data from a completely silent, fully blind vulnerability.

The Digital Assembly Line

recon_user → dev_user → monitor_user → ops_user → root

Introduction

A real‑world case of CSV exposure, password hashes, and responsible disclosure

Bug Bounty Write-up | Stored XSS | File Upload Security

Hey It’s been quite a while since my last article, but I’m excited to start publishing consistently again, covering web application…

BUG BY AI ASSISTANT

“The best bugs aren’t found. They find you — usually at 2 AM when you’re half-asleep and the coffee has gone cold.”

Security vulnerabilities are not always created by bad code. Sometimes, the code is secure, the logic is correct, and the authentication is…

Overview

At IT security events and in professional discussions, I am currently seeing the following picture: More and more decision-makers at small…

Part 3 of my CICD-Goat pentest: overprivileged tokens, controller-node execution, fail-open security checks, and mutable Docker images

From anonymous FTP to root shell: privilege escalation in action

Every disk image tells a story. In this challenge, what started as a simple forensic investigation quickly turned into a hunt through…

The wrong first program quits more beginners than the difficulty does.