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Deep dives, expert analysis, and practical guidance on exposure management, adversarial validation, and the future of AI-driven exposure management.

Offensive Security

Social Engineering Penetration Testing Guide

A social engineering penetration testing field guide: building an OSINT pretext, running an authorized GoPhish campaign, mapping to MITRE ATT&CK T1566, and the metrics that prove resilience.

Dec 21, 20258 min

CVE

Top CVEs of November 2025

Security teams barely got a break in November. High-severity alerts kept popping up, ranging from active Windows kernel exploits to urgent cloud infrastructure flaws. With so many patches releasing at once, identifying the most dangerous threats is essential for protecting your network. The followin

Dec 11, 202518 min

CVE

CVE-2025-55182: React2Shell RCE Demands Immediate Security Action

React2Shell exposes a fundamental flaw in how React Server Components interpret untrusted data, turning a routine hydration step into a reliable remote execution pathway. Introduction If you work with React, Next.js, or any framework that leans on React Server Components (RSC), this is the one vulne

Dec 8, 20257 min

Offensive Security

IoT Penetration Testing Guide

An IoT penetration testing field guide: binwalk firmware extraction, cracking /etc/shadow with hashcat, dropping to a U-Boot root shell, flashrom SPI dumps, and open MQTT brokers.

Dec 6, 20259 min

Data Breaches

Top Data Breaches of November 2025

Data breaches recorded a high-impact breach across apparel brands, analytics platforms, food-delivery networks, cloud providers, and major financial institutions. These incidents exposed sensitive customer data, internal records, and operational details, showing how easily exposure spreads when vend

Nov 28, 202512 min

Black Friday

The Dark Side of Discounts: Mapping the Black Friday Cybercrime Economy

Black Friday creates a shift that most enterprises feel long before the sale begins. Traffic climbs. Product teams release updates faster. New landing pages, offers, and integrations move into production with tight timelines. These changes are normal for revenue growth, but they also widen exposure

Nov 27, 202513 min

Application Security

Root Detection in Android Apps - Security Benefits, Challenges, and Implementation Strategies

Among the most debated questions in the constantly changing mobile application development, whether to include root detection in the application is a seemingly important choice to both developers and security teams. This is not just a technical option, but it has far-reaching consequences in terms o

Nov 25, 20255 min

CTEM

Why Organizations Are Moving to CTEM

Security teams are facing exposure patterns that form and spread far faster than traditional assessment cycles can handle. A misconfigured cloud role created during an early-morning deployment can expose sensitive permissions before lunch. A forgotten internet-exposed asset can be scanned by automat

Nov 25, 202519 min

Offensive SecurityApplication Security

Thick Client Penetration Testing Guide

A field guide to thick client penetration testing: decompiling .NET with dnSpy, Frida auth hooks, named-pipe DACL abuse, and the report-grade findings that come out of it.

Nov 21, 20259 min

Network Pentesting

Identifying Security Misconfigurations in Enterprise Networks

Verizon's DBIR ties a large share of breaches to misconfiguration, not zero-days. Here are the enterprise network misconfigurations testers find most, with the exploit output and the GPO-level fixes.

Nov 6, 20257 min

Data Breaches

Top Data Breaches of October 2025

October 2025 brought significant data breaches. From universities and airlines to healthcare providers and enterprise systems, multiple high-impact incidents exposed millions of records across industries. These breaches highlight recurring issues, such as third-party risks, delayed patching, exposed

Oct 30, 202511 min

CVE

Top CVEs of October 2025

October wasn’t short on headlines, but these CVEs did more than make the news. They reshaped how organizations view exposure, privilege, and trust across their environments. Top CVEs of October 2025 spotlights the vulnerabilities that drove real-world exploits, privilege abuse in the cloud, and syst

Oct 30, 202516 min