How to Think Like a Hacker: 8 Mindset Methods for Security Researchers
A practical mindset guide for ethical hackers, pentesters, and security researchers who want to move beyond tools and think in systems.
Web-Security
CORS Misconfiguration: Simple Mistake, Serious Impact
CORS is a browser security control for controlled cross-origin access. Misconfiguration can expose sensitive data to untrusted origins.
File Upload Security: What Can Go Wrong?
File upload features are high-risk because they accept complex user-controlled content and often interact with storage, parsing, and public access paths.
How to Write a Professional Vulnerability Report
A professional vulnerability report should help the reader understand the issue, reproduce it, assess impact, and fix it efficiently.
JWT Security Testing Checklist
JWTs are compact signed tokens, but implementation mistakes can turn them into authentication and authorization weaknesses.
My 15-Day Content Sprint for KevinSec
This article documents the first KevinSec content sprint: 30 blog posts in 15 days, focused on building trust through practical security writing.
Password Reset Vulnerabilities: Common Patterns
Password reset is an account recovery feature, but small design flaws can turn it into an account takeover path.
Path Traversal and LFI: Reading Files You Should Not Read
Path traversal and LFI happen when applications let untrusted input influence file paths or file inclusion behavior.
Rate Limiting: The Control That Many Apps Forget
Rate limiting is not only a performance control. It is a security boundary for authentication, abuse prevention, and API resource protection.
Reflected XSS Explained: Context, Root Cause, Impact
Reflected XSS happens when user-controlled input is returned in an immediate response without safe output handling.