Why I created the Smart Contract Security Research Handbook — a practical guide to adversarial auditing, DeFi vulnerability discovery…

Imagine asking an AI assistant to research three laptops, compare their prices and specifications, and recommend the best one for your…

Objective

A practical bug bounty story about testing authorization, manipulating request parameters, and finding a potential IDOR vulnerability.

PHP2Shell isn’t a WordPress bug or a Drupal bug — it’s in PHP itself, and a “Hello World” app running on an affected version is vulnerable…

A couple of years ago, almost all teams were handling security like an exam. The developers would write the code, testers would check it…

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم — وَمَا بِكُم مِّن نِّعْمَةٍ فَمِنَ اللَّهِ

Learn how CyLab’s “ping-cmd” challenge passes user input straight into a shell command, and how a single semicolon turns a simple ping…

So I’m doing a DFIR placement right now, and in my spare time I’ve been building out a little Active Directory lab to practice offensive…

VAPT Foundations, Part 2 of 7. From reading about the target to actually talking to it. Knocking on the Door Politely!!

Started by enumerating open ports on target machine using nmap.

Reconnaissance

SaaS or on-prem stalling your API tool rollout? Check data residency first and settle it in four steps. Here’s the order.

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, APIs have become the backbone of modern software architecture. They enable businesses to expose…

Siemens, Schneider Electric, ABB and others have confirmed that some of their products are affected by the PHP2Shell vulnerabilities.

The Genesys Cloud, Genesys Engage, and Genesys Engage Cloud platforms were not affected.

Xint says a flaw in OpenAI’s compaction process let researchers move reasoning traces between models, potentially making it cheaper to distill a rival AI.

Attackers successfully exploited the PHP2Shell flaws against honeypots, launching 35 shells from two IP addresses on October 24.