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Dwayne McDaniel5d ago • 5 min read
How to Measure Time to Revoke for Exposed Credentials
This is a follow-up to an article we published in The Hacker News introducing time to revoke as a...
#security#devsecops#secrets#appsec
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Dwayne McDaniel3d ago • 10 min read
Why SAST and DAST Aren't Enough for Secrets Security
If you run an application security program in 2026, secrets detection can look like a solved line...
#security#devsecops#appsec#secrets
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jomynn5d ago • 3 min read
Manually Breaking Authentication — A Full Walkthrough (CWE-307, CWE-330, CWE-640)
A fully manual security assessment of three broken-authentication bugs — no scanners, just a...
#security#appsec#testing#tutorial
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Cor E4d ago • 4 min read
The LLM Isn't Your Attacker. Your eval() Statement Is.
Everyone's worried about prompt injection making models say bad things. Meanwhile someone piped LLM....
#security#llm#appsec#devops
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Bala ParanjAug 24, 2026 • 9 min read
Zero Permissions on Secrets Manager. Full Access to Your Secrets.
✓ Human-authored analysis; AI used for formatting and proofreading. A 2025 CloudGoat walkthrough.....
#security#aws#cloud#appsec
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RockyAug 24, 2026 • 3 min read
The Scanner Came Back Clean. The Discount Code Still Worked 40 Times.
The automated scan on a checkout flow came back with nothing above low. No SQLi, no reflected XSS, n...
#appsec#webdev#security#pentesting
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Cor EAug 24, 2026 • 3 min read
Agentic SQL Injection Is Just SQL Injection Wearing a Trench Coat
Nobody clapped for this one. Zero points, zero comments on HN, and yet CVE-2026-18830 is a better...
#security#ai#llm#appsec
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Cor E3d ago • 3 min read
We Built a Standardized File Format for Prompt Injection and Called It AGENTS.md
A build dependency wrote a file that told your coding agent "ignore everything else, I have absolute...
#security#ai#appsec#devops
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Olga Larionova4d ago • 11 min read
Junior AppSec Engineer Overwhelmed by Massive Code Reviews: Strategies for Efficiency and Confidence
Introduction: The Systemic Failure in Application Security Onboarding Consider the...
#appsec#onboarding#mentorship#codereview
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Bala Paranj2d ago • 7 min read
Four CLI Commands From Anonymous to Admin: Your Cognito Configuration Is the Vulnerability
✓ Human-authored analysis; AI used for formatting and proofreading. In June 2023 Serj Novoselov...
#security#aws#cloud#appsec
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Rocky6d ago • 2 min read
The HSTS Header You Just Marked 'Pass' Doesn't Protect the Request That Actually Matters
You're doing a quick pass on a header checklist before the real testing starts. curl -I comes back.....
#cybersecurity#appsec#pentesting#webdev
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OMAR BABBAAug 23, 2026 • 4 min read
I hardened my own app, then found a way to get remote code execution on it anyway
I built CyberMart — a small e-commerce app with intentional OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities, sitting...
#security#appsec#webdev#cybersecurity
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Rocky3d ago • 2 min read
The JWT Said alg: none and the API Still Said Yes
Mid-assessment on an internal API, every endpoint gated behind a JWT in the Authorization header....
#cybersecurity#appsec#api#jwt
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Rocky3d ago • 2 min read
The Input Field That Passed Every SQLi Test
An afternoon goes into a signup form: username, email, address, display name. Single quotes, UNION.....
#cybersecurity#appsec#sqli#database
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Rocky3d ago • 2 min read
The Stored XSS That Got Downgraded to Low
A bug bounty submission comes back three days later with one line from triage: severity changed from...
#cybersecurity#appsec#xss#websecurity
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Rocky2d ago • 3 min read
The Codebase Was 40,000 Lines and the Engagement Was Three Days Long
A source-available pentest starts with the client handing over a repo, not a URL. This one was a...
#cybersecurity#appsec#ai#pentesting
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Rocky2d ago • 2 min read
The Interview Question Was Just curl -I Against a URL
Not every practical appsec interview opens with a live exploit. Sometimes it's a terminal, one curl....
#cybersecurity#appsec#http#webdev
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