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Day 21 — The Heist in Milliseconds — Cracking NovaPay with a Race Condition TOCTOU Attack
Dev.to · Hafiz Shamnad 1mo ago
Day 21 — The Heist in Milliseconds — Cracking NovaPay with a Race Condition TOCTOU Attack
March 9, 2026 — Day 21 of 30 Days of Security Engineering Picture this: It's a rainy Tuesday...
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Day 20 — A Deep Dive into Open Redirect Vulnerabilities in Flask – From Exploitation to Ironclad Fixes
Dev.to · Hafiz Shamnad 1mo ago
Day 20 — A Deep Dive into Open Redirect Vulnerabilities in Flask – From Exploitation to Ironclad Fixes
In the world of web security, vulnerabilities often lurk in the seemingly innocuous corners of your...
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Day 19 — How I Built a File Integrity Monitor in Python to Detect File Tampering
Dev.to · Hafiz Shamnad 1mo ago
Day 19 — How I Built a File Integrity Monitor in Python to Detect File Tampering
What if one of your critical system files changed right now? Would you notice? Attackers rarely...
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Day 18 — Building a Linux Vulnerability Analyzer
Dev.to · Hafiz Shamnad 1mo ago
Day 18 — Building a Linux Vulnerability Analyzer
In most cybersecurity learning paths, people focus on tools first. But sometimes the better exercise...
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Day 17 — I Built a Vulnerable API to Demonstrate a Mass Assignment Attack
Dev.to · Hafiz Shamnad 1mo ago
Day 17 — I Built a Vulnerable API to Demonstrate a Mass Assignment Attack
Some vulnerabilities don’t need sophisticated exploits. Sometimes all it takes is a backend that...
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Day 16 — I Bypassed My Own Flask Login (And Fixed It Properly)
Dev.to · Hafiz Shamnad 1mo ago
Day 16 — I Bypassed My Own Flask Login (And Fixed It Properly)
Today wasn’t about building a new feature. It was about breaking one. I built a small Flask...
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Day 15 — I Built PassAudit : A Real-Time Password Security Analyzer (and it revealed how predictable we are)
Dev.to · Hafiz Shamnad 1mo ago
Day 15 — I Built PassAudit : A Real-Time Password Security Analyzer (and it revealed how predictable we are)
A GUI tool that scores your password instantly… and brutally demonstrates why most passwords would...
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Day 14 — I Built ProcWatch : A Linux Process Security Scanner for Forensics & Incident Response
Dev.to · Hafiz Shamnad 1mo ago
Day 14 — I Built ProcWatch : A Linux Process Security Scanner for Forensics & Incident Response
A small Python script that turned into a live anomaly detector and accidentally taught me how...
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Day 13 — I Stopped Trusting File Names and Started Inspecting Files (SafeOpen v2)
Dev.to · Hafiz Shamnad 1mo ago
Day 13 — I Stopped Trusting File Names and Started Inspecting Files (SafeOpen v2)
Yesterday my tool only looked at the filename. Today I realised the filename is the lie attackers...
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Day 12 — I Built a File Safety Checker in Python (and Accidentally Learned How Malware Tricks Humans)
Dev.to · Hafiz Shamnad 1mo ago
Day 12 — I Built a File Safety Checker in Python (and Accidentally Learned How Malware Tricks Humans)
A simple cybersecurity tool that turned into a lesson about trust, psychology, and why file...
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Day 11 — I Built My Own SIEM-Style Log Analyzer (LogGuardian) in Pure Python
Dev.to · Hafiz Shamnad 1mo ago
Day 11 — I Built My Own SIEM-Style Log Analyzer (LogGuardian) in Pure Python
For the past few days I’ve been doing something unusual. Instead of only learning cybersecurity...
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Day 9 — Secret-Scout : Building a Secrets Detection Tool for Secure Codebases
Dev.to · Hafiz Shamnad 1mo ago
Day 9 — Secret-Scout : Building a Secrets Detection Tool for Secure Codebases
Modern software development is no longer confined to isolated workstations or closed corporate...
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