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Cybersecurity

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
advanced
Build an AI-powered log anomaly detector
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Beyond Compliance: What Earning the ISO/IEC 27701:2025 Lead Auditor Certification Means to Me
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 2h ago
Beyond Compliance: What Earning the ISO/IEC 27701:2025 Lead Auditor Certification Means to Me
In today’s digital world, data has become one of the most valuable assets organizations possess. Every online transaction, registration… Continue reading on Med
Fool’s Mate: When the Engine Bluffs
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 2h ago
Fool’s Mate: When the Engine Bluffs
Room: Fool’s Mate — TryHackMe Difficulty: Easy | Category: Web / Client-Side Bypass Author: Abdul Rehman | LinkedIn | TryHackMe Continue reading on Medium »
Top 5 Cybersecurity Interview Questions (2026) | Perfectnotes
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 2h ago
Top 5 Cybersecurity Interview Questions (2026) | Perfectnotes
Cybersecurity is one of the fastest-growing fields in the world, with millions of unfilled roles. However, passing a technical security… Continue reading on Med
Max-Severity Adobe ColdFusion RCE (CVE-2026-48282) Is Now Under Active Attack
Dev.to · Etairos.ai 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 2h ago
Max-Severity Adobe ColdFusion RCE (CVE-2026-48282) Is Now Under Active Attack
TL;DR what: Adobe ColdFusion's maximum-severity flaw CVE-2026-48282 is being actively...
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 6h ago
Essential Cybersecurity Guide for Small Business Owners
MicroTech Systems offers an essential cybersecurity guide for small business owners seeking stronger protection against evolving cyber… Continue reading on Medi
Cloud-Based Cybersecurity Solutions: Benefits, Features, and Best Practices
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 6h ago
Cloud-Based Cybersecurity Solutions: Benefits, Features, and Best Practices
A few years ago, “cybersecurity” mostly meant a firewall sitting in a server closet somewhere, quietly doing its job while nobody thought… Continue reading on M
Understanding RELRO and the Global Offset Table (GOT): A Hands-On Linux Deep Dive
Medium · Programming 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 8h ago
Understanding RELRO and the Global Offset Table (GOT): A Hands-On Linux Deep Dive
Learn how Linux dynamically links functions, how the GOT works, what RELRO protects, and how to inspect everything yourself using GDB… Continue reading on Mediu
Understanding RELRO and the Global Offset Table (GOT): A Hands-On Linux Deep Dive
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 8h ago
Understanding RELRO and the Global Offset Table (GOT): A Hands-On Linux Deep Dive
Learn how Linux dynamically links functions, how the GOT works, what RELRO protects, and how to inspect everything yourself using GDB… Continue reading on Mediu
Understanding DEP/NX and PIE in Linux: A Hands-On Deep Dive Into Modern Memory Protections
Medium · Programming 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 8h ago
Understanding DEP/NX and PIE in Linux: A Hands-On Deep Dive Into Modern Memory Protections
Learn how Linux prevents code execution from data memory, randomizes executable code, and why modern binaries are much harder to attack… Continue reading on Med
Understanding DEP/NX and PIE in Linux: A Hands-On Deep Dive Into Modern Memory Protections
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 8h ago
Understanding DEP/NX and PIE in Linux: A Hands-On Deep Dive Into Modern Memory Protections
Learn how Linux prevents code execution from data memory, randomizes executable code, and why modern binaries are much harder to attack… Continue reading on Med
Managed Cybersecurity for NZ Small Businesses: What You Actually Need in 2026
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 8h ago
Managed Cybersecurity for NZ Small Businesses: What You Actually Need in 2026
Managed cybersecurity combines 24/7 network monitoring, endpoint protection, staff phishing training, and Privacy Act compliance reporting… Continue reading on
Medium · Programming 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 8h ago
Natas Challenge Username & Password
Natas teaches the basics of server-side web security. I successfully solved the Natas wargame  Continue reading on Medium »
India Just Joined an Elite Club. Here’s Why That Matters for Global Infrastructure Security
Medium · AI 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 10h ago
India Just Joined an Elite Club. Here’s Why That Matters for Global Infrastructure Security
India is now the 7th country to master Gallium Nitride semiconductor technology a capability once denied to it, now developed… Continue reading on Medium »
India Just Joined an Elite Club. Here’s Why That Matters for Global Infrastructure Security
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 10h ago
India Just Joined an Elite Club. Here’s Why That Matters for Global Infrastructure Security
India is now the 7th country to master Gallium Nitride semiconductor technology a capability once denied to it, now developed… Continue reading on Medium »
Shifting Mobile Security Left: Applying SAST to Android Apps with MobSF
Dev.to · FabrizioPerezPeralta 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 12h ago
Shifting Mobile Security Left: Applying SAST to Android Apps with MobSF
TL;DR — I took an intentionally vulnerable Android application, ran the static analysis engine of...
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 12h ago
How Does a Login System Verify You If the Salt is Always Random?
Hello everyone !! Welcome back !!  Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 12h ago
Top Certification Courses to Launch Your IT Career in 2026
The IT industry continues to evolve at an incredible pace, creating exciting opportunities for professionals equipped with the right… Continue reading on Medium
Penetration Testing, Explained Properly: How You Break Into a System to Prove It Can’t Be Broken…
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 12h ago
Penetration Testing, Explained Properly: How You Break Into a System to Prove It Can’t Be Broken…
Everyone says “we should do a pentest.” Far fewer can say what actually happens during one, why permission is the whole game, or why the… Continue reading on Me
SOCSimulator
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 12h ago
SOCSimulator
SOCSimulator: SOC analyst training, under real pressure. Continue reading on Medium »
The Alert That Almost Everyone Ignores (Until It’s Too Late)
Medium · Python 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 14h ago
The Alert That Almost Everyone Ignores (Until It’s Too Late)
Every security team has a mental hierarchy of alerts. Continue reading on Medium »
The Alert That Almost Everyone Ignores (Until It’s Too Late)
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 14h ago
The Alert That Almost Everyone Ignores (Until It’s Too Late)
Every security team has a mental hierarchy of alerts. Continue reading on Medium »
Vibe Coding Shipped the Feature. Nobody Shipped the Security
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 14h ago
Vibe Coding Shipped the Feature. Nobody Shipped the Security
A field guide to what’s actually going wrong in AI-generated apps in 2026, and which tool actually fixes which part of it Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 15h ago
MySQL & Microsoft SQL Injection: How I Retrieved the Database Version | PortSwigger Web Security…
Continuing my hands-on journey through the PortSwigger Web Security Academy, I completed another SQL Injection lab focused on identifying… Continue reading on M
The Incident Commander Role: Running Incidents Without Chaos
Dev.to · Samson Tanimawo 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 16h ago
The Incident Commander Role: Running Incidents Without Chaos
Everyone's Debugging, Nobody's Leading Five engineers in an incident channel. All...
Rate Limit Said 429. The Attacker Saw 200. They Rotated One Header.
Medium · Programming 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 16h ago
Rate Limit Said 429. The Attacker Saw 200. They Rotated One Header.
When your Redis rate limit keys on X-Forwarded-For — and trust is the vulnerability. Continue reading on Medium »
Signal Protocol: A Technical Deep Dive into Modern Encrypted Messaging
Dev.to · Gladis Jenkins 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 16h ago
Signal Protocol: A Technical Deep Dive into Modern Encrypted Messaging
Signal Protocol: A Technical Deep Dive into Modern Encrypted Messaging The Signal Protocol...
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 18h ago
Smart Contract: Reentrancy Zafiyeti
Selamlar, ben Umut. Bugün smart contract tarafında en çok duyulan zafiyetlerden biri olan Reentrancy zafiyetini anlatacağım. Continue reading on Medium »
Designing trust after the Quantum Shock stripped away our digital armor
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 20h ago
Designing trust after the Quantum Shock stripped away our digital armor
It was 2 AM on a Thursday. I was staring at a blank terminal window, thinking about the sheer volume of personal data I had spent years… Continue reading on Med
6 Cybersecurity Mistakes Small Businesses Make Without Realizing
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 20h ago
6 Cybersecurity Mistakes Small Businesses Make Without Realizing
Real breach lessons and simple security actions for non-technical teams. Continue reading on Medium »
The Server Room Is Not a Museum, Stop Preserving Ancient Systems
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 20h ago
The Server Room Is Not a Museum, Stop Preserving Ancient Systems
Every organization has one. A server nobody wants to touch. It sits in the rack like an artifact from a forgotten civilization, humming… Continue reading on Med
Applying SAST Tools to Real Applications — A Hands-On Look at Bandit
Dev.to · Mauricio Choqueña Choque 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 20h ago
Applying SAST Tools to Real Applications — A Hands-On Look at Bandit
What is SAST, and Why It Matters Static Application Security Testing (SAST) analyzes...
Hybrid Identity: How One Foothold Can Take Down Both Kingdoms
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 20h ago
Hybrid Identity: How One Foothold Can Take Down Both Kingdoms
A walkthrough of how on-prem Active Directory and Entra ID connect, and why the sync server is the crown jewel most defenders overlook. Continue reading on Medi
How Abia TechRise Changed the Way I Think About Cybersecurity
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 20h ago
How Abia TechRise Changed the Way I Think About Cybersecurity
The Beginning: More Than Just Learning to Hack Continue reading on Medium »
The E-Rickshaw Wasn’t Hacked. It Was Paired.
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 22h ago
The E-Rickshaw Wasn’t Hacked. It Was Paired.
A nearby phone, a weak connection, and a moving vehicle show why India’s EV revolution needs security by design. Continue reading on Medium »
Dev.to AI 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 23h ago
Privacy Mask: Chrome extension to anonymize data
Privacy Mask is now available in the Chrome Web Store . It is a Chrome extension from Paperwork for masking sensitive work text locally before it goes into AI c
Dev.to AI 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 23h ago
Top Cryptocurrency Recovery Hub: Finding Legitimate Digital Asset Recovery Experts
Quantum Vault Recuperation (QVR) has been a trusted provider of cryptocurrency recovery, digital asset investigations, and blockchain forensic analysis. The com
Dev.to AI 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 23h ago
Reliable Cryptocurrency Recovery Service Helping Recover Hacked Digital Asset Wallets
Quantum Vault Recuperation (QVR) has been a trusted provider of cryptocurrency recovery, digital asset investigations, and blockchain forensic analysis. The com
Dev.to AI 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 23h ago
Top Crypto Recovery Experts Specializing in Lost and Stolen Cryptocurrency Cases
Quantum Vault Recuperation (QVR) has been a trusted provider of cryptocurrency recovery, digital asset investigations, and blockchain forensic analysis. The com
Dev.to AI 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 23h ago
Best Cryptocurrency Recovery Company Offering Advanced Blockchain Investigation Solutions Worldwide
Quantum Vault Recuperation (QVR) has been a trusted provider of cryptocurrency recovery, digital asset investigations, and blockchain forensic analysis. The com
Dev.to AI 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 23h ago
Leading Crypto Recovery Service Helping Victims Retrieve Scammed Bitcoin Successfully
Quantum Vault Recuperation (QVR) has been a trusted provider of cryptocurrency recovery, digital asset investigations, and blockchain forensic analysis. The com
I Downloaded a Free PHP Script. It Was Stealing Data
Dev.to · NIXX/DEV 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
I Downloaded a Free PHP Script. It Was Stealing Data
Some years ago, an anonymous PHP developer used to share free PHP scripts online. These scripts were...
The AI That Can’t See the Monster in the Room
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
The AI That Can’t See the Monster in the Room
Why replacing human cybersecurity professionals with AI is a fundamentally flawed idea, and what the future of the profession actually… Continue reading on Medi
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Why Businesses Need Cybersecurity Advisory Services in 2026
Cybersecurity has become one of the biggest priorities for businesses as digital transformation accelerates across industries… Continue reading on Medium »
Deploying Microsoft Defender Attack Surface Reduction Rules (ASR)Using Group Policy Object (GPO)
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Deploying Microsoft Defender Attack Surface Reduction Rules (ASR)Using Group Policy Object (GPO)
Deploying & managing Microsoft Defender Attack Surface Reduction (ASR) rules across domain-joined devices using Group Policy. Continue reading on Medium »
What Is Project Glasswing, Really? Inside Anthropic's Big Bet on AI-Powered Cyber Defense
Dev.to · Arashad Dodhiya 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
What Is Project Glasswing, Really? Inside Anthropic's Big Bet on AI-Powered Cyber Defense
I'm not going to pretend I'm some veteran pentester writing this from experience. I'm a beginner. I'm...
Demystifying SSH with -vvv: How GBase 8a's Underlying Connection Negotiates Encryption
Dev.to · Michael 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Demystifying SSH with -vvv: How GBase 8a's Underlying Connection Negotiates Encryption
SSH is the backbone of GBase 8a cluster management, powering everything from remote commands to SFTP...
Phishing in 2026 The Year of Our Lord
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Phishing in 2026 The Year of Our Lord
The phishing campaign that landed you domain user credentials with direct access into MS Office365 in 2019 gets your infrastructure burned… Continue reading on
Dev.to AI 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Well-Known Top 1 Best Cryptocurrency Recovery Company
Quantum Vault Recuperation (QVR) has been a trusted provider of cryptocurrency recovery, digital asset investigations, and blockchain forensic analysis. The com