Authentication

Cloud Security

AWS Cognito Misconfigurations and Identity Pool Abuse

Disclaimer: This article is provided strictly for educational purposes and authorized security testing. Only run these t...
Security

Password Storage Done Right: bcrypt, scrypt, and Argon2

Disclaimer: This article is provided strictly for educational purposes and authorized security testing. Only run these t...
Security

Weak Randomness and Predictable Token Generation

Disclaimer: This article is provided strictly for educational purposes and authorized security testing. Only run these t...
Security

HMAC, Signatures, and Common Verification Mistakes

Disclaimer: This article is provided strictly for educational purposes and authorized security testing. Only run these t...
Security

IPsec/IKE and WireGuard: A Security Comparison

Disclaimer: This article is provided strictly for educational purposes and authorized security testing. Only run these t...
Security

Single Sign-On (SSO) Threats and Hardening

Disclaimer: This article is provided strictly for educational purposes and authorized security testing. Only run these t...
Web Exploitation

Session Management: Cookies, Tokens, and Fixation

Disclaimer: This article is provided strictly for educational purposes and authorized security testing. Only run these t...
Web Exploitation

API Gateway Security Patterns

Disclaimer: This article is provided strictly for educational purposes and authorized security testing. Only run these t...
Security

SAML vs OIDC: A Security Comparison

Disclaimer: This article is provided strictly for educational purposes and authorized security testing. Only run these t...
Security

Phishing-Resistant MFA: FIDO2 and WebAuthn Internals

Disclaimer: This article is provided strictly for educational purposes and authorized security testing. Only run these t...
Security

Zero Trust Architecture: Principles and Pitfalls

Disclaimer: This article is provided strictly for educational purposes and authorized security testing. Only run these t...
Web Exploitation

JWKS, Key Rotation, and JWT Validation Pitfalls

Disclaimer: This article is provided strictly for educational purposes and authorized security testing. Only run these t...
Web Exploitation

WebSocket Security Testing Methodology

Disclaimer: This article is provided strictly for educational purposes and authorized security testing. Only run these t...
Security

802.1X and Network Access Control (NAC) Considerations

Disclaimer: This article is provided strictly for educational purposes and authorized security testing. Only run these t...
Active Directory

Inside Kerberos: A Deep Dive into the Protocol Internals

A practical breakdown of Kerberos internals: AS-REQ, TGS-REQ, the PAC, and why RC4 vs AES etypes matter for attackers and defenders.
Web Exploitation

JWT Vulnerabilities and Attacks: alg none, Key Confusion, and kid Injection

A practical guide to exploiting JSON Web Token flaws — alg=none, key confusion, weak secrets, and kid injection — plus defenses.
Security

Authentication Bypass Techniques: Logic Flaws, SQLi, Weak Resets, and 2FA Bypass

A practical walkthrough of four authentication bypass classes — logic flaws, SQLi, weak password resets, and 2FA bypass — with detection and defense.
Security

Breaking OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect: Redirect, State, and Token Attacks

A practical guide to OAuth 2.0 and OIDC attacks - redirect_uri abuse, state/CSRF, PKCE, and token leakage - with blue-team defenses.