Author: Berend Watchus December 2, 2025

Cybersecurity is undergoing a major transformation. Traditional firewalls and basic antivirus tools are no longer enough to protect against…

By Nuno Lopes Bsc.

Transport Layer Security (TLS) is the protocol that enables secure communication across the internet. It provides encryption…

We convinced ourselves that “Stateless Auth” was better. In reality, we just made it impossible to ban a user without reinventing the…

In modern web applications, backend logic often hides behind layers of UI workflows and API routing. But sometimes, the most impactful…

In this challenge, a fictional heist takes place inside the Louvre. My objective in Task 1 was to access the investigation portal and…

Phishing — Merry Clickmas

Learn how to use the Social-Engineer Toolkit to send phishing emails

Welcome to this new Medium post. In this one, we’re working on the next part of the Tor-based C2. We’re protecting our endpoints to ensure…

Introduction

Introduction

The Meeting Room Impostor: How AI Assistant Names Became a Security Blind Spot A product manager starts her weekly team sync. Nine familiar faces appear on screen, plus one participant labeled …

The Human Firewall: Why Psychology, Not Just Code, Defines Our Cybersecurity Future We’re spending billions on firewalls, AI, and encryption, but the biggest vulnerability in every company is still …

Today I moved beyond simple ICMP traffic and focused on understanding how real web communication works at the packet level. I used Firefox…

O DVWA (Damn Vulnerable Web Application) é uma ferramenta feita para treinar segurança ofensiva. Um dos módulos é o Command Injection…

For the last two years, I’ve watched engineering teams wrestle with tech debt in real time — across migrations, audits, rushed rewrites…

Everyone’s worried about ransomware. After Colonial Pipeline, Change Healthcare, and the endless stream of double-extortion attacks…

In what might be the most ironic cybersecurity discovery of 2025, researchers have found that the answer to breaking billion-dollar AI…

What Australian Businesses Need to Know About the Cyber Security Act 2024 Australia’s first standalone cyber security law, the Cyber Security Act 2024, has been introduced and is reshaping how …

The firewall no longer protects the castle walls.