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A blog by experts of penetration testing and other security assessments.
Why we ditched LastPass
LastPass is a very popular password management service with both personal and business solutions. Recently, LastPass has experienced mounting criticism from the information security industry as a result of an incident described in an August 25, 2022 blog post. The blog post was updated in November, ...
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Is the CISSP Mentorship for me?
“Knowledge is power.” That quote has been said more times than you can count because it’s true. The ...
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What happened to CVE-2022-23529? And what can we learn from it?
If you saw the disclosure notice for the flaw CVE-2022-23529, it would have been presented as a ...
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Risks of AI Generated Content, According to an AI Content Generator
AI and Machine Learning (ML) have become increasingly popular tools in various industries, ranging ...
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Quick Bites 7 - Dr. TamperMonkey (Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love JavaScript)
We get really excited here at Secure Ideas about sharing knowledge with others. Our mission ...
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Steam Deck Privacy and Security
Like any portable computing device, there are going to be questions about privacy and security. ...
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ZAPmas Feedback
Sometimes Christmas comes early, and in this case for me it was the publication of the Twelve Days ...
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12 Days of ZAPmas - Day 12 Testing a new Content-Security-Policy
What is the CSP? The Content-Security-Policy (CSP) is a widely recommended control and is ...
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Twelve Days of ZAPmas - Day 11 - ZAP impressions from a Burp user
It probably seems a bit odd to do this on Day 11 and not at the end of the series, but I have one ...
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Twelve Days of ZAPmas - Day 10 - Manual Web App Testing Unproxied
Most of the time, proxying the browser doesn’t present any sort of trouble. You should be able to ...
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Twelve Days of ZAPmas - Day 9 - Automated Scanning and ATTACK mode
Automated scanning against an application is useful. It’s a faster and less labor-intensive way to ...
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Twelve Days of ZAPmas - Day 8 - Spidering
Spidering is an automated process that recursively finds and follows all the navigation from an ...
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