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Ethical hacking, penetration testing, network security, CTFs and defensive security

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Security Basics
beginner
Fix OWASP top 10 vulnerabilities
AI Security
intermediate
Identify and patch prompt injection vulnerabilities
Network Security
intermediate
Configure a firewall with proper inbound/outbound rules
Ethical Hacking & Pen Testing
intermediate
Conduct a full pen test with Kali Linux
Cloud Security
intermediate
Implement IAM least-privilege policies on AWS/GCP
Incident Response
intermediate
Build an incident response playbook
Security Compliance
intermediate
Map controls for SOC 2 Type II compliance
Defensive AI
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Build an AI-powered log anomaly detector

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Inner Warden: A Lightweight Open Source eBPF EDR for Linux that Actually Blocks Attacks
Dev.to · Maicon Ribeiro Esteves 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Inner Warden: A Lightweight Open Source eBPF EDR for Linux that Actually Blocks Attacks
Inner Warden: an autonomous eBPF security agent that fights back Most security tools only...
OWASP Top 10 for Developers (2026 Edition) — How to Actually Fix the Most Dangerous Web Vulnerabilities
Dev.to · Mahdi SHamlou | مهدی شاملو 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
OWASP Top 10 for Developers (2026 Edition) — How to Actually Fix the Most Dangerous Web Vulnerabilities
Hi, Mahdi Shamlou here. In my last article (What Is a Sandbox? How to Safely Run and Analyze Any...
What Is a Sandbox? How to Safely Run and Analyze Any Unknown .exe
Dev.to · Mahdi SHamlou | مهدی شاملو 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
What Is a Sandbox? How to Safely Run and Analyze Any Unknown .exe
Hi, Mahdi Shamlou here. In this guide, I explain how malware analysis sandboxes work — from isolating...
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Practical Zero Trust: How to Secure What Actually Matters
Zero Trust is everywhere. Every vendor mentions it, and every Board deck has a slide on it. Continue reading on Medium »
Cybersecurity in 2026 and Beyond: Trends Everyone Should Know
Hackernoon 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Cybersecurity in 2026 and Beyond: Trends Everyone Should Know
Cyber threats are growing faster than the workforce defending against them — 78% of organizations lack the in-house skills they need. Identity and Access Manage
Fluffy
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Fluffy
Machine Information As is common in real life Windows pentests, you will start the Fluffy box with credentials for the following account… Continue reading on Me
The Age of Self-Building Systems and the Rise of Self-Devouring Systems
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The Age of Self-Building Systems and the Rise of Self-Devouring Systems
When Enterprise Ecosystems Evolve Faster Than Governance Continue reading on Medium »
Upcoming 2026 Cybersecurity Conferences & Events to Attend
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Upcoming 2026 Cybersecurity Conferences & Events to Attend
Top Worldwide Cybersecurity Events to Attend in 2026. Continue reading on CodeToDeploy »
Why Most Bug Hunters Miss the Obvious Vulnerabilities
Medium · Programming 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Why Most Bug Hunters Miss the Obvious Vulnerabilities
Because they’re too busy looking for complex ones. Continue reading on System Weakness »
Why Most Bug Hunters Miss the Obvious Vulnerabilities
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Why Most Bug Hunters Miss the Obvious Vulnerabilities
Because they’re too busy looking for complex ones. Continue reading on System Weakness »
Fail2Ban — a simple tool that can improve your server security
Medium · DevOps 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Fail2Ban — a simple tool that can improve your server security
Fail2Ban is a powerful service that helps protect your server by automatically blocking suspicious or malicious activity. It monitors logs… Continue reading on
Copy Fail: Ketika 732 Byte Bisa Membuat Siapa Saja Jadi Root di Linux
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Copy Fail: Ketika 732 Byte Bisa Membuat Siapa Saja Jadi Root di Linux
Copy Fail: Ketika 732 Byte Bisa Membuat Siapa Saja Jadi Root di Linux Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
# The Genesis of KYXGO TECHNOLOGY: Redefining Digital Logic and Security
By Aditya Rai, Founder & CEO Continue reading on Medium »
Why Small Businesses Are Easy Targets for Scammers?
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Why Small Businesses Are Easy Targets for Scammers?
Most people think scammers only target large companies or wealthy individuals. Continue reading on Medium »
Dead Drop C2 Channels
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Dead Drop C2 Channels
How adversaries weaponize public platforms — pastebin sites, social media, even Google Docs — to hide command-and-control traffic in plain… Continue reading on
FreeBSD parcha CVE-2026-7270: escalada local a root vía execve()
Dev.to · lu1tr0n 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
FreeBSD parcha CVE-2026-7270: escalada local a root vía execve()
Un bug de precedencia de operadores en el kernel de FreeBSD permite a usuarios sin privilegios obtener root vía execve(). Afecta a todas las versiones
What ShinyHunters Just Did to Canvas Should Terrify Every SaaS‑Dependent Organization
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
What ShinyHunters Just Did to Canvas Should Terrify Every SaaS‑Dependent Organization
Most security teams still operate as if the perimeter is their network. ShinyHunters just reminded 330 schools and every company watching… Continue reading on M
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Cyber Regulation Made Us More Auditable. Did It Make Us More Defensible?
After decades of frameworks, certifications and audits, the evidence tells a more uncomfortable story than we usually admit. Continue reading on Medium »
Network Analysis: Malware Compromise — BTLO Lab Writeup
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Network Analysis: Malware Compromise — BTLO Lab Writeup
From Inbox to Infection: Hunting Ursnif and Dridex in a SOC Lab (Difficulty level: Medium) Continue reading on Medium »
Names Are A Security Debt We Can No Longer Afford
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Names Are A Security Debt We Can No Longer Afford
Why do we need to give our operating systems our name? Think about it. We give them a username and a password. Are those not sufficient… Continue reading on Med
Reducing False Positives & Building High-Fidelity Detection Engines
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Reducing False Positives & Building High-Fidelity Detection Engines
Threat detection has crossed an inflection point. With 86% of security teams spending over a week to ship a single detection rule, and 63%… Continue reading on
Cooctus Stories (THM) Tryhackme Writeup Answer
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Cooctus Stories (THM) Tryhackme Writeup Answer
Description : This room is about the Cooctus Clan Continue reading on Medium »
DDoS Clearing House — A Dutch Model for Defense in the Digital Age
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
DDoS Clearing House — A Dutch Model for Defense in the Digital Age
A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is a malicious attempt to disrupt the normal traffic of a target server, service, or network… Continue reading on
How Attackers Abuse Active Directory's Kerberos, By an Attacker (Part I)
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
How Attackers Abuse Active Directory's Kerberos, By an Attacker (Part I)
This is the complete, comprehensive deep dive behind the scenes for how the Kerberos protocol is abuse by attackers in Active Directory. Continue reading on Med
TCM Practical AI Pentest Associate (PAPA) Review: My Honest Experience (2026 — English Version)
Medium · AI 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
TCM Practical AI Pentest Associate (PAPA) Review: My Honest Experience (2026 — English Version)
My Experience with the Practical AI Pentest Associate (PAPA) Certification by TCM Security Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Day 25: SIEM Query Basics (KQL)
Today I focused on one of the most important skills in SOC work: searching logs efficiently inside a SIEM. Whether the platform uses KQL… Continue reading on Me
These 30+ Tools HACKERS Use Daily (Most Are FREE!)
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
These 30+ Tools HACKERS Use Daily (Most Are FREE!)
Nmap, Burp Suite, Wireshark, Metasploit, Aircrack‑ng and 25 more. Stop hunting blindly here’s the real daily toolkit Continue reading on ILLUMINATION »
The 30-Minute Breach: How an Attacker Went from Port Scan to Data Exfiltration on a Cloud Server
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The 30-Minute Breach: How an Attacker Went from Port Scan to Data Exfiltration on a Cloud Server
One unpatched vulnerability. Forty-five malicious workflows. Thirty minutes. Here’s how I reconstructed the whole thing. Continue reading on Medium »
Hackeo masivo de portales Canvas impulsa nueva campaña de extorsión del grupo ShinyHunters
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Hackeo masivo de portales Canvas impulsa nueva campaña de extorsión del grupo ShinyHunters
Además, otra vez un zero-day en Linux permite escalar a root, hackeo al sistema ferroviario de Taiwán, Chrome descarga un modelo de IA sin… Continue reading on
Day 78: Hunting Silent IAM Bugs & Securing DynamoDB
Dev.to · Eric Rodríguez 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Day 78: Hunting Silent IAM Bugs & Securing DynamoDB
aws #serverless #react #webdev published: true date: "2026-05-08 21:30:00 UTC" Today was...
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
What I Learned Building Azure Governance From Scratch
A few weeks ago I started a personal lab project to learn Azure Policy properly. The premise was a Wild West subscription, no tagging… Continue reading on Mediu
Sandboxing untrusted code with Bubblewrap
Medium · LLM 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Sandboxing untrusted code with Bubblewrap
Sandboxing is about running code you don’t fully trust without giving it the run of your machine. Continue reading on Medium »
WebDAV Zafiyeti ve Sudo Yanlış Yapılandırması ile Sisteme Sızma | CTF Çözümü
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
WebDAV Zafiyeti ve Sudo Yanlış Yapılandırması ile Sisteme Sızma | CTF Çözümü
Bugün sizlerle çözmüş olduğum keyifli bir CTF makinesinin adımlarını paylaşacağım. Bu makinede temel bilgi toplama süreçlerinden… Continue reading on Medium »
What Actually Happens When You Click “I Agree” Without Reading
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
What Actually Happens When You Click “I Agree” Without Reading
Most people do it in under two seconds. A pop-up appears, something asks for permission, and you click “I agree” just to move on. It feels… Continue reading on
A manual pentest costs 50,000 dollars. Intruder built an AI that does it in minutes.
The Next Web AI 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
A manual pentest costs 50,000 dollars. Intruder built an AI that does it in minutes.
A manual penetration test costs between 10,000 and 50,000 dollars. It takes weeks to schedule, days to execute, and produces a report that is out of date before
Responsible Disclosure Case Study: Critical Authorization, Identity and Credential-Exposure Risks…
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Responsible Disclosure Case Study: Critical Authorization, Identity and Credential-Exposure Risks…
Executive Summary Continue reading on Medium »
Getting Started with CTF Competitions: Everything a Beginner Needs to Know
Medium · Machine Learning 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Getting Started with CTF Competitions: Everything a Beginner Needs to Know
You Do Not Need to Be an Expert to Start Continue reading on Medium »
I Caught a Jailbreak Attack That Hides Inside Normal Conversations
Dev.to · Ayush Singh 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I Caught a Jailbreak Attack That Hides Inside Normal Conversations
This attack does not look like an attack. That is exactly what makes it dangerous. I was working...
Outil de Cybersécurité du Jour - May 9, 2026
Dev.to · CyberMaîtrise CyberMaîtrise 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Outil de Cybersécurité du Jour - May 9, 2026
Le Guide Complet de Wireshark : Un Outil Incontournable en Cybersécurité Introduction : L'Essentiel...
ZDNet 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Best VPN services 2026: Expert tested and recommended
Looking for a solution that improves your online privacy, helps you avoid censorship, and bypasses age verification checks? We've tested and ranked the best VPN
Dynamic Challenge in openVPN
Dev.to · Fadi Hamwi 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Dynamic Challenge in openVPN
Dynamic Challenge-Response Authentication in OpenVPN TL;DR — OpenVPN's dynamic...
This Isn’t Content Marketing — It’s a Supply Chain Attack on AI Architects
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
This Isn’t Content Marketing — It’s a Supply Chain Attack on AI Architects
A sponsored article on Medium targeting an AI architect is, in extreme variants, a three-dimensional trap combining key exfiltration… Continue reading on Medium
Humans Attack Vectors — SOC Perspective ️
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Humans Attack Vectors — SOC Perspective ️
Exploring how attackers manipulate the weakest link in cybersecurity — humans — and how SOC analysts defend against these threats through… Continue reading on C
Systems as Attack Vectors — SOC Level Defensive Understanding
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Systems as Attack Vectors — SOC Level Defensive Understanding
Systems Security, Vulnerability Management & Misconfiguration Analysis focused SOC walkthrough covering real-world attack vectors… Continue reading on MeetCyber
How a Single JavaScript File Bypassed a $1.5B Multi-Sig: Anatomy of the Bybit Hack
Dev.to · rim dinov 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
How a Single JavaScript File Bypassed a $1.5B Multi-Sig: Anatomy of the Bybit Hack
On February 21, 2025, the crypto world witnessed the largest single-event heist in history: $1.5...
CTI Kill Chain: An Analyst Guide With Real-World Evidence
Medium · AI 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
CTI Kill Chain: An Analyst Guide With Real-World Evidence
Mapping adversary behavior from preparation to impact without overstating the evidence Continue reading on Medium »
Sovereign Communication: Why Every Secure Messaging App Is Still Broken — And How to Fix It From First Principles
Dev.to · Muhammad Ali 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Sovereign Communication: Why Every Secure Messaging App Is Still Broken — And How to Fix It From First Principles
The Lie We Were Sold We were told encryption solved privacy. It didn't. Encryption...
False Positives in SAST — How I Built Suppression Into My Scanner and Why It Matters
Dev.to · Patience Mpofu 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
False Positives in SAST — How I Built Suppression Into My Scanner and Why It Matters
There's a failure mode that kills security tooling programmes quietly, without drama, and it's not a...