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Security Basics
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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
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Build an incident response playbook
Security Compliance
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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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TechRepublic 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
New WhatsApp Flaws Could Affect Billions of Users After Meta Security Patch
Meta patched two WhatsApp flaws affecting iOS, Android, and Windows users, including bugs tied to risky files, links, and Reels previews. The post New WhatsApp
TechRepublic 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Google AppSheet Abuse Helped Phish 30,000 Facebook Accounts
Hackers abused Google AppSheet to send Meta phishing emails, compromising 30,000 Facebook business accounts across 50 countries. The post Google AppSheet Abuse
ZDNet 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
These 5 critical Windows Defender settings are off by default - turn them on ASAP
Windows Defender has several security settings, including some you need to switch on to get the utmost protection. Here's why.
TechRepublic 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
What If Your Digital Footprint Could Shrink?
Get Surfshark One+ with Incogni for $91.99 (reg. $500.40) and cover VPN, alerts, antivirus, and data removal. The post What If Your Digital Footprint Could Shri
TechRepublic 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
6 Best No-Log VPNs in 2026
Looking for the best anonymous (no-log) VPN in 2026? Check out our comprehensive list to find the top VPN services that prioritize anonymity and security. The p
7 Bug Bounty Mistakes That Cost Me Real Money
Medium · Programming 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
7 Bug Bounty Mistakes That Cost Me Real Money
Lessons you only learn after missing payouts Continue reading on Medium »
The OWASP Top 10 Isn’t a List of Bugs — It’s a List of Human Habits
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
The OWASP Top 10 Isn’t a List of Bugs — It’s a List of Human Habits
For more than 20 years, the OWASP Top 10 has been guiding the world on the most critical web security risks. It started back in 2003, and… Continue reading on M
Dev.to AI 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Before You Send Logs to Gemini — Strip the PII First
All tests run on an 8-year-old MacBook Air. Android logs contain more than stack traces. User IDs. Email addresses. IP addresses. Phone numbers. Auth tokens tha
Alert Triage Process in SOC — TryhackMe
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Alert Triage Process in SOC — TryhackMe
An alert is one of the most important parts of cybersecurity. Security teams use alerts to find suspicious or dangerous activity in a… Continue reading on Mediu
The Quantum Threat Is Real — Meet QSafe PQC, a Post-Quantum Cryptography API (And We Need Beta Testers!)
Dev.to · Rushikesh Kakadiya 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
The Quantum Threat Is Real — Meet QSafe PQC, a Post-Quantum Cryptography API (And We Need Beta Testers!)
> TL;DR: I built a Post-Quantum Cryptography API platform called QSafe PQC. It gives developers...
Split any file into a keyless block and a 128-bit key - in two bitwise operations
Dev.to · Paul Frol 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Split any file into a keyless block and a 128-bit key - in two bitwise operations
What if you could take any file — a photo, a database dump, a movie — and split it into two parts...
Why Enumeration Is More Important Than Exploitation in Pentesting
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Why Enumeration Is More Important Than Exploitation in Pentesting
Many beginners focus on exploits professionals focus on information. Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Sonu Kumar: Navigating the 2025 Cybersecurity Landscape — Insights from Nepal’s Cloud Security…
As Sonu Kumar, a cybersecurity specialist deeply rooted in Nepal and passionate about securing digital frontiers, I’ve witnessed firsthand… Continue reading on
The Secret Language of Search: Google Dorking
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
The Secret Language of Search: Google Dorking
Imagine you are standing in the world’s largest library. Continue reading on Medium »
Polymorphic & Metamorphic Malware: The Shape-Shifting Threat Your Antivirus Can’t See
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Polymorphic & Metamorphic Malware: The Shape-Shifting Threat Your Antivirus Can’t See
A deep dive into how modern malware evolves, evades, and why the old playbook of signature detection is quietly losing the war. Continue reading on Medium »
I Wrote a Techno-Thriller About My Own Technology. Then I Gave It Away for Free.
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
I Wrote a Techno-Thriller About My Own Technology. Then I Gave It Away for Free.
Every piece of technology in “Trust No Agent” is real. The platform exists. The attacks are plausible. The book is free. Continue reading on Medium »
How I Investigated a Real Phishing Attack That Led to Malware Execution and C2 Communication
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
How I Investigated a Real Phishing Attack That Led to Malware Execution and C2 Communication
As a SOC Analyst , I recently investigated a phishing case on the LetsDefend platform that turned out to be far more serious than a simple… Continue reading on
The Swiss Chip in Russia’s Stealth Drone: How a $47 STMicroelectronics Controller Blew Open the…
Medium · AI 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
The Swiss Chip in Russia’s Stealth Drone: How a $47 STMicroelectronics Controller Blew Open the…
A forensic autopsy of the October 2024 S-70 Okhotnik-B wreckage, the Western silicon inside it, and why Russia’s drone dominance was a… Continue reading on Medi
Why Data Privacy Is a Daily Commitment Not Just a Policy
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Why Data Privacy Is a Daily Commitment Not Just a Policy
As we step into a new month, it’s easy for businesses to focus on growth, targets, and new opportunities. Continue reading on Medium »
Liveness Detection Technology in Remote Identity Verification
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Liveness Detection Technology in Remote Identity Verification
The digital landscape has undergone a seismic shift, moving from physical handshakes to encrypted handshakes in less than a decade. As we… Continue reading on M
Exposing Hidden Server Secrets: A Practical Guide to Samba Reconnaissance
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Exposing Hidden Server Secrets: A Practical Guide to Samba Reconnaissance
If you are diving into network security, ethical hacking, or system administration, you will inevitably run into Samba. It is the backbone… Continue reading on
Setting Up Snort 3 as an IDS
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Setting Up Snort 3 as an IDS
Intrusion Detection System (IDS) watches your actual traffic, matches it against known attack patterns, and alerts you when something… Continue reading on Mediu
Deepfake Çağında Kırmızı Tehdit
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Deepfake Çağında Kırmızı Tehdit
Red Team’ler İçin Aldatma, Kimlik Taklidi ve Yetki Aşımı Operasyonları Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
The Ethics of Pixel Tracking: Where Useful Analytics Become Digital Surveillance — Joseph Sides
Continue reading on Medium »
TryHackMe | Detecting AD Credential Attacks | WriteUp
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
TryHackMe | Detecting AD Credential Attacks | WriteUp
Detect Kerberoasting, AS-REP Roasting, LSASS dumping, DCSync, and NTDS.dit extraction in Splunk. Continue reading on T3CH »
CyberDefenders — Insider Walkthrough
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
CyberDefenders — Insider Walkthrough
Olay İnceleme Raporu: İç Tehdit (Insider Threat) Vakası — “Karen” Analizi (CyberDefenders) Continue reading on Medium »
“Copy Fail”: The Most Alarming Linux Bug in a Decade
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
“Copy Fail”: The Most Alarming Linux Bug in a Decade
Intro Continue reading on Medium »
The Modern Developer’s Guide to Hashing, Encryption, and Encoding
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
The Modern Developer’s Guide to Hashing, Encryption, and Encoding
In the world of software development, terms like hashing, encryption, and encoding are often tossed around as if they’re interchangeable… Continue reading on Me
I audited 25 top npm packages with a zero-install CLI. Here's who passes.
Dev.to · Pico 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
I audited 25 top npm packages with a zero-install CLI. Here's who passes.
npx proof-of-commitment react zod chalk lodash axios typescript Enter fullscreen mode ...
Silencing EDR File Telemetry: MiniFilter Callback Unlinking
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Silencing EDR File Telemetry: MiniFilter Callback Unlinking
Welcome to this new post. Today we are diving into MiniFilter callbacks, the kernel-level hooks that monitor every file I/O operation on… Continue reading on Me
The Register 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Bot her emails: most modern phishing campaigns are AI-enabled
KnowBe4 says 86% of phishing it tracked used AI, and inboxes are only the start Give a man a phishing kit and he might get lucky a couple of times; teach an AI
Moldova National Health Insurance Company Suffers Massive Data Breach Affecting One-Third of Database
Dev.to · BeyondMachines 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Moldova National Health Insurance Company Suffers Massive Data Breach Affecting One-Third of Database
Moldova's National Health Insurance Company (CNAM) suffered a cyberattack that compromised approximately 30% of the national healthcare database, including pers
GHSA-83HF-93M4-RGWQ: CVE-2026-42254: Cross-Zone DNS Cache Poisoning in Hickory DNS Recursor
Dev.to · CVE Reports 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
GHSA-83HF-93M4-RGWQ: CVE-2026-42254: Cross-Zone DNS Cache Poisoning in Hickory DNS Recursor
CVE-2026-42254: Cross-Zone DNS Cache Poisoning in Hickory DNS Recursor Vulnerability ID:...
Why Cursor Keeps Writing MD5 for Passwords (And How to Fix It)
Dev.to · Charles Kern 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Why Cursor Keeps Writing MD5 for Passwords (And How to Fix It)
TL;DR AI editors frequently output MD5 or SHA-1 for password hashing -- both broken for...
The MCP RCE That Anthropic Won't Patch: Your Enforcement Checklist
Dev.to · Toni Antunovic 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
The MCP RCE That Anthropic Won't Patch: Your Enforcement Checklist
Anthropic confirmed the MCP STDIO remote code execution vulnerability is by-design behavior. With 150 million downloads affected and no protocol fix coming, her
ZDNet 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Anthropic's new Claude Security tool scans your codebase for flaws - and helps you decide what to fix first
It uses Opus 4.7 to scan, validate, and generate patches, helping fix dangerous flaws before they can be exploited.
Neuro-Morph: Building a Living Defense System with Autonomous Moving Target Defense and MongoDB
Dev.to · K. NIHAL 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Neuro-Morph: Building a Living Defense System with Autonomous Moving Target Defense and MongoDB
Authors: Kaipu Nihal reddy, Dev Rajeev, Mahendra What Neuro-Morph Actually Is The core idea behind...
AI Will Not Replace Hackers..But It Will Replace Lazy Ones
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
AI Will Not Replace Hackers..But It Will Replace Lazy Ones
(Why the future of cybersecurity belongs to thinkers, not tool users) Continue reading on ILLUMINATION »
He Verified Someone Else’s Email on Instagram — and Meta Paid $5,000
Medium · Programming 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
He Verified Someone Else’s Email on Instagram — and Meta Paid $5,000
What if someone could verify your email on Instagram… without ever accessing it? Continue reading on OSINT Team »
What pentest does your startup actually need?
Dev.to · Beatriz Albernaz 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
What pentest does your startup actually need?
Most startup founders know they should get a pentest. Fewer know what kind, what scope, or what a...
Hacking GitHub: From Tag Rewrites to Dangling Commits, Where the Git Protocol Trusts You Without Checking
Dev.to · kt 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Hacking GitHub: From Tag Rewrites to Dangling Commits, Where the Git Protocol Trusts You Without Checking
A single line of "uses: tj-actions/changed-files@v44" burned 23,000 repositories. About a year later, 75 of 76 Trivy tags were rewritten the same way. Git tags
39 Million Secrets Leaked on GitHub. Yours Could Be Next.
Dev.to · Fernando Rodriguez 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
39 Million Secrets Leaked on GitHub. Yours Could Be Next.
5 minutes. That's how long it took. A security researcher publishes an AWS access key on a...
[GAME THEORY] UAT-4356/Storm-1849: When Patching Is Not Eviction
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
[GAME THEORY] UAT-4356/Storm-1849: When Patching Is Not Eviction
“We patched it” is not an eviction notice. Continue reading on Medium »
Anti-DDoS Firm Heaped Attacks on Brazilian ISPs
Krebs on Security 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Anti-DDoS Firm Heaped Attacks on Brazilian ISPs
A Brazilian tech firm that specializes in protecting networks from distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks has been enabling a botnet responsible for an ex
TechCabal 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Chams profit rises 188% as cybersecurity revenue triples
While biometrics and card services still anchor revenue, the security and digital infrastructure are emerging as the next phase of expansion.
Dev.to AI 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Slopsquatting in Python: What 205,474 Hallucinated Package Names Mean for Your Supply Chain
Your AI coding assistant wrote this line: from huggingface_cli import login It looks fine. It looks like something that should exist. You run pip install huggin
Three Sui Exploits in One Week. So I Built 5 Security Tools to Catch Them.
Dev.to · TxDesk 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Three Sui Exploits in One Week. So I Built 5 Security Tools to Catch Them.
In nine days, three Sui DeFi protocols got hit. Volo lost $3.5M on April 21. Scallop lost $142K on...
AWS Cloud Pentesting Part 3: How I Chained Lambda, SSRF, and S3 to Win a CloudGoat Scenario
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
AWS Cloud Pentesting Part 3: How I Chained Lambda, SSRF, and S3 to Win a CloudGoat Scenario
A beginner-friendly walkthrough of enumerating AWS Lambda functions, pivoting to EC2, exploiting SSRF, and chaining credentials to… Continue reading on Medium »