Remote Shell Walkthrough on Kioptrix & Blue Windows (Lab Practice) TL;DR: In a controlled lab setup, I successfully gained a remote shell on two vulnerable machines: Kioptrix (Linux) and Blue Windows …

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Okay, real talk. I just stumbled down a rabbit hole of something called eye-tracking, and my brain is completely buzzing. I’m no expert…

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Nowadays, hackers don’t always need advanced exploits to learn about us. Using OSINT, they can collect personal details from our social…

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The FBI has issued a FLASH Alert warning about UNC6040 and UNC6395, two groups actively compromising Salesforce via vishing and malicious OAuth apps to steal data.

Penske Media is suing Google over AI Overviews, claiming the feature unlawfully uses its content and has caused a significant drop in traffic and revenue for its sites.

Google unveils VaultGemma, the first LLM trained with differential privacy. The open-source model achieves near non-private performance, setting a new standard for privacy-first AI.

Two critical vulnerabilities (CVSS 10 & 9.8) in Digiever NVRs allow unauthenticated attackers to steal credentials and execute commands. Update your firmware immediately.

Researchers expose BaoLoader, a malware operation that has systematically used at least 26 code-signing certificates over seven years to appear legitimate and bypass security.

A critical flaw in LangChainGo, a popular LLM framework, allows attackers to read sensitive files via server-side template injection. A patch has been released.