Weighing the career benefits against the mental toll of doom-scrolling

Understanding Command & Control (C2): An Educational Demonstration of Remote Endpoint Control Cybersecurity is not only about understanding vulnerabilities. It is equally important to understand what …

Aser Ahmed · August 8, 2026

If you are one of my brethren in India, I will assume you are aware with the hacking of the national bank of baroda, in which consumer…

How attackers turn ordinary permissions, APIs, processes, and trust relationships into attack chains

How ordinary DNS, HTTP headers, logs, permissions, and automation quietly become attack infrastructure

The human body is made of 39 trillion microbes (BBC Science focus, https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/human-microbiome). As you…

It’s been a long time since anyone has traced programs from start to finis— it’s simply too tedious and unproductive. A researcher’s main…

Task 2 — Code Review

Every few months, a new development trend changes how applications are built. In 2026, that trend is vibe coding. Someone can have an idea…

Why a giant subdomain list means almost nothing until DNS, ports, TLS, and HTTP tell you what’s actually alive

One lies about identity. The other inherits privilege.

How service discovery, ports, protocols, banners, and scan interpretation turn an IP address into something you can actually investigate

A filter in front of a vulnerability does not remove the vulnerability. Getting past it only proves the bug is reachable.

Understanding scan types, service detection, OS fingerprints, NSE, timing, and why the same host can look completely different depending on…

Moving from ports and services to HTTP requests, parameters, cookies, authentication, and application logic

I’d like to note that this article won’t be crammed, as usual, with technical examples and code snippets — it’s more of a reflection. I…

A debugger gives us a clean almost perfect view of what’s happening. There’s the instruction. There’s the one.. There’s a clear line…

I still have the screenshot.