What I Got Wrong The First Time

Task 1: Journey to Senior

Inferno — TryHackMe WriteUp with Flags Date: 23/06/2026 Room Link: https://tryhackme.com/room/inferno My Profile: https://tryhackme.com/p/RayenHafsawy 🧭 Introduction This room chains HTTP Basic …

Why a single unbounded loop in an LLM API can outcost a data breach — and nobody notices until the invoice lands.

During web application penetration testing, finding a SQL Injection (SQLi) flaw is often just the beginning. While many security…

Recently, I decided to sharpen my Android security skills by solving MHL challenges. I came across an interesting challenge that was first…

Well, well, well - once again, the cat has dragged us in and spat us out.

Today, we find ourselves questioning the reality we sit within. Must it be so predictable, and why us? “But watchTowr, what do you mean?”

Well, if you’re here, you likely fit into…

Four Digit Bounty, Max Impact. How I Stopped a Mass Data Breach With a Single HTTP Method Switch Note: Throughout this writeup, redacted is used in place of the actual target/company name and domain …

If you think you know XSS, you haven’t seen half of these vectors. Here’s the collection that made me question everything I thought I knew…

pentest-ai: The Open Source Pentest Tool That Proves Every Finding Before It Reports It Security scanning tools have a trust problem. Not the tools themselves, but the relationship between security …

In this lab from PortSwigger’s Web Security Academy, the goal was simple: find the hidden private blog post and extract its secret…

AdminSDHolder is a protected Active Directory object located at CN=AdminSDHolder,CN=System,<domain>. Its security descriptor serves as the…

“Challenge showcasing a web app and simple privilege escalation. Can you find the glitch?”

“Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.” — Peter Drucker

A JWT shouldn’t just open the door to your API. It should help establish trust, preserve identity, and enable traceability across every…

Threat:

The Process Environment Block (PEB) is a critical runtime structure in Windows that contains essential process metadata: image base, heap…

Metasploit is not just a tool for “running exploits.” That explanation is too small. Metasploit is a modular penetration testing framework…