A few days ago, I stumbled across a term in a bug bounty write-up: OAST payload. I had no clue what it meant, so I did what anyone would do…

For my automotive security people.

On September 15, three agencies — the FBI, the U.K.’s National Cyber Security Center, and the Netherlands’ AIVD — published a joint…

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What is CSRF

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I’m Hossam Hamada, a security researcher and bug bounty hunter. During an authorized security assessment, I discovered an interesting OTP…

TL;DR CISA published advisory ICSA-26-272-02 on September 29, 2026, covering 10 Toptech TMS7 vulnerabilities that also affect TopHAT. The worst, CVE-2026-71379, scores CVSS 10.0 and lets an unauth…

TL;DR OpenSSL fixed 14 OpenSSL vulnerabilities in a security advisory on September 29, 2026. One is rated High: a DTLS flaw that can leak heap memory to a peer or crash the process. The rest are o…

No injection. No broken authentication. No parser doing something it shouldn’t. This bug lived entirely in a spreadsheet-simple arithmetic…

Alert Reporting, Escalation & Cyber Kill Chain

Most Windows environments are running with logging almost completely turned off by default — and that blind spot is exactly what ransomware…

Why Choosing the Right Penetration Testing Company Matters

Is the Vibe-coded application hacked? Check with Strix. An open-source team of autonomous AI pentesters that runs your code, attacks it, and proves what it finds. Introduction Most security tools …

How Plugin4Shell exposed a new supply-chain attack surface inside AI coding agents

I’ve seen this comment in production code more than once:

How a simple business-logic flaw turned an invalid quantity into a zero-payable cart.

Security testing doesn’t always require complex exploits.