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Stop Investigating Endpoints Like It’s 2015: A Free Roadmap to Becoming a Cloud SOC Analyst

Stop Investigating Endpoints Like It’s 2015: A Free Roadmap to Becoming a Cloud SOC Analyst

Master AWS, Azure, and GCP defense without spending a dime. Here is the exact syllabus you need.
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Why I Respect Hackers More Than Compliance Officers

Why I Respect Hackers More Than Compliance Officers

Why audit-ready is killing our ability to be attack-ready
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MFA Won’t Save You: How Hackers Use Token Replay to Hijack Cloud Accounts

MFA Won’t Save You: How Hackers Use Token Replay to Hijack Cloud Accounts

Your firewall isn’t your perimeter anymore. Identity is. But what happens when the digital keys to that identity are stolen after the lock…
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The End of “Ctrl+F” Forensics: How LLMs Are Rewriting the Rules of Investigation

The End of “Ctrl+F” Forensics: How LLMs Are Rewriting the Rules of Investigation

For decades, digital forensics has been a game of keywords. We acquire a disk image, mount it, and start searching. We grep for password…
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Stop Waiting to Be Hacked: Why Threat Hunting is the Only Skill That Matters

Stop Waiting to Be Hacked: Why Threat Hunting is the Only Skill That Matters

There is a dangerous misconception in cybersecurity: that if you buy enough tools, configure enough firewalls, and tune enough SIEM rules…
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Advent of Cyber 2025: Full Walkthrough P1

Advent of Cyber 2025: Full Walkthrough P1

The holiday season in the cybersecurity world doesn’t mean time off ,it means it’s time for Advent of Cyber.
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The AI Mirage: Why Your SOC Will Be Noisier in 2026 (Despite the Hype)

The AI Mirage: Why Your SOC Will Be Noisier in 2026 (Despite the Hype)

If you’ve walked the floor of any major cybersecurity conference lately , RSAC, Black Hat, or even a local BSides, you’ve seen the…
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React2Shell Explained: The New Vulnerability Breaking Websites Worldwide

React2Shell Explained: The New Vulnerability Breaking Websites Worldwide

React2Shell represents one of the most significant shifts in web exploitation in recent years not because it abuses memory corruption, but…
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CVE-2025–64446 | The FortiWeb Vulnerability Everyone Slept On

CVE-2025–64446 | The FortiWeb Vulnerability Everyone Slept On

When security teams think edge device compromise, they usually imagine firewalls, VPN appliances, or exposed RDP endpoints. What they…
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How Hackers Bypass Data Loss Prevention

How Hackers Bypass Data Loss Prevention

Data Loss Prevention (DLP) solutions are great at catching the loud stuff. If an employee tries to upload 5GB of .docx files to Dropbox…
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The 5 Security Misconfigurations Found in Every IR & SOC Report

The 5 Security Misconfigurations Found in Every IR & SOC Report

It’s 2026. We have AI agents writing our Terraform, Quantum-safe cryptography is rolling out, and we are on the verge of AGI.
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The New SOC Playbook for 2026: AI Worms, Rogue GPTs & the End of Static IOCs

The New SOC Playbook for 2026: AI Worms, Rogue GPTs & the End of Static IOCs

The era of cat and mouse in cybersecurity is ending. We are entering an era of machine versus machine. The emergence of AI-driven malware…
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