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    Supply Chain Security: Trust Is the New Attack Surface
    information security |  penetration testing |  cybersecurity |  appsec |  Secure Development
    In February 2026, while participating in a panel at IT Expo, one statement kept resonating throughout the discussion: most breaches today don’t start at the perimeter, they do start with abused trust. For years, we invested heavily in defending the edge using mechanisms like firewalls, ...
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    Detecting Dangling SaaS Subdomains and Real Subdomain Takeovers
    Detecting Dangling SaaS Subdomains and Real Subdomain Takeovers
    Subdomain takeover is one of those vulnerabilities that refuses to die. Every few years it gets ...
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    AI Agents: Clippy With Root Access
    AI Agents: Clippy With Root Access
    There’s a new kind of software showing up in your Slack, IDE, and cloud console and it’s AI agents. ...
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    Paths to Power in Active Directory Part 2: ESC1 – No One, Yet Anyone
    Paths to Power in Active Directory Part 2: ESC1 – No One, Yet Anyone
    This is the second post in this series. Part I can be found here.
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    Extract Secrets from Multiple Configuration Files Using Vim
    Extract Secrets from Multiple Configuration Files Using Vim
    penetration testing  |  command line  |  red team  |  VIM
    You're SSH'd into a compromised Linux server during a penetration test. You've found the ...
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    Paths to Power in Active Directory Part 1: How AD CS Misconfigurations Become the Keys to the Kingdom
    Paths to Power in Active Directory Part 1: How AD CS Misconfigurations Become the Keys to the Kingdom
    An Introduction to Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) I am still pretty new to ...
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    No Broadcast Traffic? No Problem! - NetExec SMB Slinky Module
    No Broadcast Traffic? No Problem! - NetExec SMB Slinky Module
    As pentesters, tools such as Responder and Ntlmrelayx are great tools for capturing hashes or ...
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    Annual Pentests Aren't Cutting It Anymore: Why Continuous Testing Beats Scrambling at Renewal Time
    Annual Pentests Aren't Cutting It Anymore: Why Continuous Testing Beats Scrambling at Renewal Time
    Let's be honest about something: if you're still relying on that once-a-year penetration test to ...
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    The Real AI Revolution in Penetration Testing
    The Real AI Revolution in Penetration Testing
    Custom Tooling at Lightning Speed Most cybersecurity professionals hear "AI in penetration testing" ...
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    Quick Bites 13 – Network Pentest Restrictions Can Hurt Your Business
    Quick Bites 13 – Network Pentest Restrictions Can Hurt Your Business
    Too Many Network Pentest Restrictions Can Hurt Your Business
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    Risk-Driven Approach: The Federal Government’s Shift in Cybersecurity Burden
    Risk-Driven Approach: The Federal Government’s Shift in Cybersecurity Burden
    From All-Hazards to Risk-Informed The New Risk-Informed Paradigm One of the most significant shifts ...
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    Understanding Garbage Findings
    Understanding Garbage Findings
    There is a well-meaning desire among penetration testers to produce findings. The fact of the ...
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