📰 Dev.to · rudy_candy

Pentesting isn't the movie version of hacking. Here's what the job is really like, including the parts that surprised me after I started doing it.

Coming from network engineering into security testing, here's how I tell the skills that survive a job change from the ones that expire in a few years.

A repeatable way to study for IT certs around a full-time job: set a numeric pass bar, cap the timeline, and do active recall instead of watching videos.

What a web app vulnerability assessor actually does all day in Japan: scope checks, crawling, request tampering, and the bugs that really turn up.

picoCTF forensics challenges come in all shapes, but Scan Surprise from the General Skills category is one where the difficulty isn’t the technique — it’s