Articles by Tag #cybersecurity
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The Day I Stopped Chasing Everything and Found My One Thing
So let me tell you a story. It's mine, but honestly, it might be yours too. When I was a kid, I used...
SOC-CERT: Automated Threat Intelligence System with n8n & AI
This is a submission for the AI Agents Challenge powered by n8n and Bright Data 🛡️ What I...
Frontend Devs: Weaponize Beauty. Build UIs That Command Respect
TL;DR: I build offensive security frameworks. You build interfaces. Let's make tools that researchers...
Hunting API Keys in the Wild: How I Built FleaMarket to Find (and Help Fix) Real Leaks on GitHub
TL;DR: I built an ethical, open-source scanner called FleaMarket that finds exposed API keys in...
I’ve Been Doing This for 25 Years and I Still Google Everything
Let's get this out of the way up front: I’ve been working in IT for about 25 years, and I still...
KAPLAN — Stealthy Bulk Fetching Over Tor for Red Team Ops
A multithreaded, identity-rotating, resilient file fetcher built for covert red team reconnaissance...
VLESS Protocol: How It Bypasses Censorship in Russia and Why It Works
Introduction In 2025, internet censorship has reached unprecedented levels in Russia,...
🫡 Introducing Nikki: Your Offline, Uncensored AI Red Team Assistant in the Terminal
No cloud. No censorship. No hallucinated APIs. Just battle-tested code, curated from real offensive...
Threat Modeling the YouTube Algorithm: A Security Researcher's Guide to Content Strategy
📌 Missed Part 1? Start here: YouTube Monetization, Speed, and Risks (Part 1) This section continues...
What I Keep Finding When I Scan Small U.S. Municipal Websites (And How To Fix It In Under An Hour)
I’ve spent the last few months poking at public websites that belong to small U.S. towns, school...
🚨 I Almost Got Hacked: A Sophisticated Job Scam Targeting Developers
How a fake job offer nearly installed malware on my machine through a malicious npm package. A cautionary tale about supply chain attacks.
AI Can "Guess" Base64 Encoding - And That Changes Everything
The Experiment I was building a crypto-as-a-service API and needed to test gRPC endpoints...
The Vulnerability Wardrobe: What Your Security Posture Is Really Wearing
Every vulnerability wears a disguise. Some dress up as convenience. Others as legacy. A few parade...
My Writeup (0day in Zsh (RCE))
I am Rana M.Sinan Adil aka (livepwn). I am 17 years old i was working on bug and also created a...
I Analyzed 100 Claude MCP Servers and Found Critical Security Flaws in 43% of Them
What I discovered made me build an open-source security tool It started with a simple...
Why I Built a Free Security Scanner That Makes Sense
I just completed the Institute of Data / Michigan Tech Cybersecurity program, and for my capstone...
Beyond 'Correct Horse Battery Staple': Passphrases in Inflected Languages
A developer's journey through grammatical cases, gender agreements, and the unexpected complexity of...
The Modern Home Network Has No Safe Mode
At three in the morning, the router light is still blinking. Not the angry red one. Not the dramatic...
I Built Quality Control Into an AI Tool's Architecture—Here's What It Generated
The Strategic Insight That Changed Everything When I tested CyberLens v1.5 on "deepfake,"...
Learning the Hard Way: A New Developer's Tale of AI and Self-Discovery
Introduction: When Reality Hits Different My name is Namaneetha, and I recently landed my...
The Backbone of Global Scam: How NameSilo, Webnic, and NiceNic
Global scam thrives on registrar protection. 💥 Every second you read this, someone is being scammed...
The Unspoken Conversation: When Your Code Attracts the Wrong Kind of Attention
There's a particular flavor of email that arrives dressed as opportunity but carries the subtle...
The state of Sui: What external-facing risk looks like (and why top engineers miss it)
TL;DR I analysed the externally-observable posture of 122 Sui network endpoints. What I found isn't...
LanManVan: My Journey Building a Modular Security Framework in Go
A few months ago, I started working on a personal project to create a flexible and powerful tool for...
I built a beginner-friendly reverse engineering challenge using Ghidra
Spoiler Warning: The breakdown below explains how each challenge works. If you want to...
Security Incident Report: Cryptominer Attack on Next.js Application
Introduction On December 7-8, 2025, my Next.js portfolio application luisfaria.dev running...
Enterprise Architecture for a blog nobody reads
The previous incarnation of this site lived happily on a Digital Ocean droplet - until react2shell...
🕵️♂️ DestroyScammers: De-anonymizing Crypto Thieves with Open Source Intelligence
TL;DR: Crypto scammers act like jurisdiction doesn’t apply to them. It does. We built the...
Why I Quit Development to Break Into Cybersecurity
I started at the terminal with my fingers frozen, time ticking–tic-tic-tic–less than 5 minutes left...
🧪 Red Team AI Benchmark: Evaluating Uncensored LLMs for Offensive Security
How to objectively measure if an AI assistant is truly useful for real-world penetration testing —...