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Data poisoning once sounded like an academic concern. In 2025, it's a live security risk. OWASP ranks Data and Model Poisoning as LLM04 in their 2025 Top 10, and recent research has shattered assumptio...
AI agents aren't just chatbots anymore. They browse the web, execute code, manage files, and coordinate with other agents—all with minimal human oversight. This autonomy creates entirely new attack sur...
Web security is one of the best career paths you can choose in 2025. The demand for security professionals continues to outpace supply, salaries are excellent, and the work is genuinely interesting—you...
The traditional "castle and moat" security model is dead. With remote work, cloud services, and sophisticated attackers, the network perimeter has dissolved. Zero Trust offers a new paradigm: never tru...
JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) power authentication for millions of applications. They're elegant in theory: a signed, self-contained token that proves identity without database lookups. In practice, JWT imple...
Traditional DoS attacks flood servers with traffic. AI DoS attacks are smarter—a single carefully crafted prompt can exhaust more resources than thousands of normal requests. OWASP elevated this threat...
Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) turns your application into an attack proxy. Instead of attacking your server directly, attackers trick it into making requests on their behalf—accessing internal res...
OWASP elevated Supply Chain vulnerabilities to #3 in their 2025 LLM Top 10—up from #5 in 2023. The risk has broadened beyond traditional software dependencies to include pre-trained models, fine-tuning...
SQL injection remains the #1 database vulnerability in 2025. While Node.js frameworks like Express make building APIs fast, they don't automatically protect your database queries. OWASP's 2024 API Secu...
We've spent years hardening web applications against XSS. We encode user input, implement Content Security Policies, and sanitize HTML. Then we add an LLM to our stack and pipe its output directly to u...
AI-generated SQL queries are silently introducing SQL injection vulnerabilities into production codebases at an alarming rate. According to Veracode's 2025 GenAI Code Security Report, AI coding assista...
Every security professional needs a lab—a safe, legal environment to practice attacks, test tools, and break things without consequences. The good news: you can build a complete hacking lab for free. ...
GitHub Copilot has revolutionized how developers write code. With over 1.3 million paid subscribers and integration into every major IDE, AI-assisted coding is no longer the future—it's the present. Bu...
2025 was the year AI coding tools went mainstream—and the year their security flaws became impossible to ignore. With over 30 vulnerabilities disclosed in December alone and almost 70% of developers re...
Bug bounty hunting sounds glamorous—hackers earning six figures from their laptops. The reality is more nuanced: it takes time to find your first valid bug, and most hunters don't get rich. But bug bou...
In August 2025, an automated framework called PRISM Eval achieved a 100% attack success rate against 37 of 41 state-of-the-art LLMs. The UK AI Safety Institute ran 1.8 million attacks across 22 models—...
Two decades ago, SQL injection forced the security industry to rethink how web applications handle user input. Today, prompt injection is doing the same for AI applications. OWASP ranks it #1 on their ...
Studies show that simply adding "follow OWASP secure coding best practices" to your prompts significantly improves the security of AI-generated code. Yet most developers still prompt AI assistants the ...
Ransomware remains the most impactful cybersecurity threat in 2025, accounting for nearly 60% of all attacks. With average payments reaching $2 million and total costs often exceeding $10 million per i...
The cybersecurity landscape in 2025 has evolved dramatically, with attackers leveraging advanced technologies and exploiting increasingly complex digital ecosystems. Understanding these threats is the ...
React's automatic escaping makes XSS harder—but not impossible. Signal had to patch a React-based XSS vulnerability related to improper HTML handling. A 2024 security analysis revealed that XSS vulnera...
The AI coding assistant market exploded in 2025, with 84% of developers now using these tools daily. But as adoption skyrockets, so do the security risks. This year alone, researchers discovered over 3...
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) launched in November 2024 as the "USB-C port for AI applications"—a standardized way to connect AI assistants like Claude to external tools and services. By mid-2025, i...
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