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Every tip, guide, tutorial, deep dive and field note — in one place.

TIP4 min read

Hardening Your Cloud in 5 Steps

A practical checklist to lock down AWS, Azure and GCP workloads before attackers find the gaps.

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GUIDE6 min read

Prompt Injection: The OWASP LLM #1 Risk

How indirect prompt injection turns helpful AI into an attacker tool — and how to defend against it.

GarakPyRITPromptfooRebuff
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BLOG5 min read

Inside a Real SOC: A Day in the Life

From the first SIEM alert to incident closure — what L1/L2/L3 actually looks like in practice.

SplunkSentinelQRadarTheHive
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RESEARCH8 min read

Reverse Engineering Modern Loaders

Unpacking obfuscated stage-1 malware and extracting IOCs the right way.

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TUTORIAL7 min read

Advanced Burp Suite Techniques for WAPT

Beyond the scanner — custom extensions, intruder payloads, and out-of-band tricks for real engagements.

Burp Suite ProCollaboratorTurbo IntruderParam Miner
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DEEP DIVE9 min read

Defending LLMs Against Jailbreak Attacks

Guardrail strategies, red-team patterns, and why most "safe" prompts are still breakable.

GarakPyRITLLM GuardRebuff
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TUTORIAL7 min read

Building a Bug Bounty Recon Pipeline

Automated subdomain discovery, fingerprinting and vulnerability triage that finds bugs while you sleep.

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DEEP DIVE8 min read

Kubernetes Attack Paths You Should Know

From a single pod compromise to full cluster takeover — the chains every defender must understand.

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TIP5 min read

5 Active Directory Quick Wins for Defenders

Practical hardening that closes the attack paths red teams actually use.

BloodHoundCertipyPingCastlePurpleKnight
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GUIDE6 min read

Detection Engineering 101

How to write detections that catch real attackers without drowning the SOC in false positives.

SigmaSplunkSentinelAtomic Red Team
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GUIDE6 min read

API Security: The Top 10 That Actually Matter

BOLA, broken auth, mass assignment — the API bugs that show up on every engagement and how to test for them.

Burp Suite ProPostmanParam MinerAutorize
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BLOG5 min read

Zero Trust Without the Buzzwords

What zero trust actually looks like in a mid-size company — identity, device posture, and segmentation that ship.

Entra IDOktaCrowdStrikeTailscale
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TUTORIAL7 min read

Mobile App Pentest: The Checklist I Actually Use

iOS and Android static + dynamic testing, from cert pinning bypass to insecure storage and IPC abuse.

MobSFFridaObjectionBurp Suite
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TIP4 min read

Phishing-Resistant MFA in 10 Minutes

Why TOTP and SMS keep getting bypassed — and the FIDO2 rollout playbook that finally stops AiTM kits.

YubiKeyEntra IDOktaDuo
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TIP4 min read

Secrets Management Quick Wins

Stop the .env sprawl: practical patterns to kill hardcoded keys without rewriting your stack.

gitleakstrufflehogVaultAWS Secrets Manager
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GUIDE7 min read

Software Supply Chain Attacks: A Defender's Guide

From typosquats to malicious maintainers — how to lock down npm, PyPI and container dependencies.

SyftGrypecosignSigstore
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GUIDE6 min read

Container Image Hardening That Survives Production

Distroless, non-root, read-only filesystems and the runtime controls that actually stop escapes.

TrivyGrypeFalcoChainguard
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BLOG5 min read

Burnout on the Blue Team — And How We Fix It

Honest notes on alert fatigue, on-call rotations, and the cultural changes that keep good analysts.

TheHiveJiraPagerDutyNotion
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BLOG6 min read

First 90 Days as a Security Lead

A pragmatic plan for new heads of security — what to measure, what to ignore, what to ship.

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RESEARCH8 min read

Ransomware Affiliate Tradecraft in 2026

What this year's leaked playbooks tell us about initial access, dwell time and double extortion patterns.

VelociraptorGRRVolatilityRclone
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RESEARCH9 min read

Mapping the AI Agent Attack Surface

Tool-using LLM agents create new privilege paths — here's how to model and test them.

PyRITGarakPromptfooBurp Suite
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TUTORIAL7 min read

Writing YARA Rules That Actually Scale

From one-off IOCs to a tunable detection corpus your SOC can run on every file in the estate.

YARAyara-xCAPAPE-Studio
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TUTORIAL7 min read

AD Pentest with BloodHound CE: A Walkthrough

Collection, ingestion and the Cypher queries I run on every internal engagement.

SharpHoundBloodHound CECertipyRubeus
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DEEP DIVE9 min read

eBPF for Detection: Beyond the Hype

Where eBPF actually wins for runtime security — and where the marketing oversells it.

bpftraceFalcoTetragonTracee
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DEEP DIVE10 min read

Modern EDR Evasion: What Defenders Should Know

Direct syscalls, indirect syscalls, unhooking, hardware breakpoints — what red teams ship and what catches it.

SysmonETWVelociraptorDefender for Endpoint
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