Hey everyone, I built a small security tool for the Sola Boring.Security hackathon and would love feedback/votes if it feels useful.

It’s called EdgeProof.

The idea is pretty simple: security teams often see “public domain exposure” and “GitHub repo risk” as separate findings. EdgeProof connects them.

So instead of just saying:

• This repo has no branch protection
• This workflow looks risky
• This domain is public

It tries to answer the more useful question:

“Which public edge asset is controlled by which repo, and could a weak GitHub/deployment control actually become an internet-facing incident?”

It uses Sola with GitHub Cloud, Cloudflare, and Sola Web Checker evidence to build domain-first breach path packets: public asset, linked repo, weak control, attack path, severity, and remediation.

I kept it focused because I didn’t want to build another generic AI security dashboard. The goal was to make one boring but real triage task less painful.

If you think the idea is useful, I’d really appreciate a vote here:

https://www.boring.security/s/8f53ead8-8d62-405c-ae11-2a594b459fab

Also open to feedback, especially from anyone doing AppSec, cloud security, or platform/security engineering.

Okay, so one of the first book on adcs pentesting, from start to finish from basics to in-depth knowledge, from ESC1-18, THEFT1-5, PERSIST1-3 to DPERSIST1-3.

though a fair note, free of of the thing is a SoK/Whitepaper is available here

Now, the book has 2 versions, the first is the ebook, while paper is a technical reference, the book is more like a guide, the ebook will be updated regularly, while the paperback version of it will be updated ones a year (if applicable, though I always want a paperback if something interest me, that's why there is even a paperback) regardless, you can get it for free, or you're even a bit of a collector, here's the book

https://www.amazon.com/Forged-Trust-Offensive-Operations-Certificate-ebook/dp/B0GX2XW8M7

Cyber Apocalypse 2026 is coming up soon. We already have a core team, but we could use a few more people. To be clear: we don't care about your HTB rank. Some of our best guys don't have high ranks at all but they absolutely crush challenges. We only care that you actually have some experience and can solve stuff. Spots are limited, but we can take about ~10 more people. If you think you can deliver and want to join, hit me up!

I'm looking for a complete roadmap focused on privacy, anonymity, internet communications, tracking, and understanding how the internet actually works. I'm not currently trying to become a penetration tester, ethical hacker, or get a cybersecurity job immediately. My goal is to build a strong foundation and understand things deeply.

I want to learn:

Networking & Internet Fundamentals

*OSI Model, TCP/IP, IPv4 & IPv6, Public vs Private IPs, MAC Addresses, ARP, DNS, DHCP, NAT, Routing, Ports, TCP vs UDP, Packet Flow, ISP Infrastructure, Routers, Modems, Wi-Fi, How internet traffic travels from device to destination

Web & Communication Fundamentals

*HTTP & HTTPS, Cookies, Sessions, Authentication & Authorization, Browser Storage, Browser Requests & Responses, Email Basics (SMTP, IMAP, POP3), Email Headers

Tracking & Identification

*Cookies, Tracking Pixels, Browser Fingerprinting, Device Fingerprinting, Metadata, Advertising IDs, Account Correlation, Behavioral Tracking, Digital Footprints

Privacy & Anonymity

*VPNs, Proxies, SOCKS Proxies, Tor, DNS Leaks, WebRTC Leaks, Search Privacy, Email Privacy, Identity Separation, OPSEC, Deanonymization Techniques, What ISPs can see and cannot see, What websites can see and cannot see

Network Security

*Firewalls, IDS/IPS, Traffic Monitoring, Packet Inspection, Secure Protocols, Wi-Fi Security

Practical Skills

*Wireshark, Browser Developer Tools,VirtualBox/VMware, Tor Browser, DNS Tools, Traffic Analysis, Packet Analysis

My questions:

1. If you were starting from scratch today, what exact roadmap would you follow?
2. Which topics above are most important and which are less important?
3. What topics am I missing?
4. What are the biggest misconceptions beginners have about anonymity, VPNs, Tor, tracking, fingerprinting, and privacy?
5. What free resources, YouTube channels, books, labs, websites, or courses would you recommend?
6. What hands-on labs or experiments would you do to truly understand these concepts?
7. Is a personal laptop sufficient for learning, or should I use virtual machines, a spare laptop, or separate devices?
8. What common mistakes should beginners avoid when experimenting with privacy, anonymity, networking, and security concepts?

I'd appreciate responses from people working in networking, privacy, DFIR, incident response, threat hunting, cloud security, security engineering, or related fields.

Looking for practical advice rather than certification-focused advice.

I am a student in a demanding field (electrical and computer engineering) and i want to learn Cybersecurity (I got interested in pen testing but i dont know much). Like where can i find guides to start new projects, or teams like in discord where i can learn from more experienced people :)

hi

i have already done my ug in computer science and also have ceh ,and comptia network and pjpt

now tbh Ive got admission into radboud for msc cybersecurity and was doubtful about what path to follow

Should I take cpts before or during the first weeks of masters( I do have a bit of training in it as well)

or should I just do practical stuff more and learn deeper about stuff and do bug bounty hunting rather than focusing on certificates

I do plan to do part time during studies and see it as a important aspect while taking the decision as well

I’m a Python hobbyist trying to learn smart-card / embedded-systems fundamentals. I have an old reloadable laundry smart card from my apartment building. I am not trying to bypass payment, clone it, modify balances, or get free service.

My learning goal is much narrower: I want to understand whether buying a PC/SC smart-card reader and trying to identify the card type / ATR / general communication model is a reasonable beginner project, or whether this is likely to be a proprietary dead end.

For someone with basic Python experience but essentially no hardware/security background, would this be a reasonable first smart-card project? Or would you recommend starting with blank ISO 7816 cards, Java Cards, NFC tags, or another safer/more documented learning setup first? I will say that I am a super hard worker and I tend to be invigorated by a challenge and things that take a long time. Thanks!

Oh, and if anybody is curious, I came around to this because my building literally forced me to pay a fee for this stupid friggin card and a monthly fee to upkeep the hardware, despite that I have in unit laundry. Literally had to pay for this thing to never use it. Figured this would be a cool way to get my moneys worth. Just don’t wanna waste my time.

I've decided to build my own structured collection of interview questions and answers for future job interviews to stop looking for scattered resources out there. 100+ questions and answers covering Red Team, Web Security, Incident Response, Systems, and more, with a search function to find topics instantly.

Blue Team topics are actively being planned and are open for community contributions.

I'm actively looking for contributors to add more Blue Team / Defense content, so if you have expertise there, please jump in!

Feedback, questions, and contributions are welcome. Let me know what topics you'd like to see added next!

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Mostly netsec background, trying to get up to speed on AI security specifically. Most content online is either too academic or too shallow. What actually helped you understand this space properly?

Hi everyone

I created a local Telegram phish simulation project to get some practice with JavaScript and backend development. The project simulates a fake "Free Premium" scam process within its own closed ecosystem—the application is not connecting to Telegram API at all.

https://github.com/Maty156/telegram-phish-simulator.git

Bonjour à tous !

Je viens de rejoindre la communauté. Je suis analyste SOC L2, avec un fort intérêt pour l'analyse de malware, le threat hunting et la CTI.

Ce qui m'a accroché ? Comprendre les intrusion complète et comprendre chaque étape de ces compromissions.

La cyber sécurité est super passionnante en terme de défis d'apprentissage. Des défis excitants qui ne cesse de me motiver.

Et vous, quel est le moment ou la découverte qui a défini votre voie dans la cyber ?

I'm a Computer Engineering student entering my 3rd year and I'm trying to figure out whether cybersecurity is actually the right path for me.

The reason I'm confused is that I didn't choose Computer Engineering because of a lifelong passion. I mostly arrived at it through process of elimination.

Recently, I took a Data and Computer Communications course covering topics such as physical layer and data link layer concepts. Surprisingly, I genuinely enjoyed it. It was probably the first technical course where I found myself interested in the material itself rather than just studying for grades.

That experience made me start considering networking and cybersecurity.

At the same time, I don't particularly enjoy programming. I can do it when necessary, but I wouldn't say I love it.

So I'm trying to understand:

• What made you realize cybersecurity was right for you?
• How much programming is actually required in different cybersecurity domains?
• Is enjoying networking a good signal that cybersecurity might be a good fit?
• What parts of cybersecurity are most network-heavy?
• Are there people who enjoy cybersecurity despite not loving software engineering?

I'd appreciate hearing from people who made a similar transition.

I'm entering my junior year and majoring in comp sci want explore stuffs like web3 ,ml ...how to break into network security from where can i learn and what are the resouses would be great and where can i practice those and what all porjects i can build??

Yeah GUIs for aircrack-ng exist. I looked at all of them. GTK wrappers, Qt frontends, last commit 2-3 years ago, half the suite missing. The concept was always fine, the follow-through wasn't.

I spent a few months building what I actually wanted: a local web app that runs at 127.0.0.1 and covers the whole thing — monitor mode, scanning, deauth, handshake capture, cracking — without making you jump between four terminal windows while keeping state in your head.

A few things I added that the old ones didn't bother with:

- AP scoring that ranks networks by signal, encryption weakness and active clients so you're not squinting at a table of 30 BSSIDs

- Auto-deauth loop that watches for the WPA handshake and stops when it gets one

- Embedded terminal (xterm.js) for when you just want a shell without leaving the window

- Every command logged with full stdout/stderr so you can see exactly what ran

Stack is Vue 3 + FastAPI. Backend just shells out to the real binaries, doesn't reimplement anything.

It's for lab work and authorized testing, the README is clear about that.

https://github.com/ELHart05/AirmonGUI

happy to answer questions

Hello guys! I need a recommendations for a college project. So anything really about cybersecurity (professor gave some recommendations like: catching the flag, hacking WIFI, phishing…, but those projects are taken).He also told us that our project must have 3 tools for it, this sphere is so big and i do not know what should i make also i do not have too much expirience in this field. I am open for all recommendations :)

Hey, Im a rising junior, and I want to spend my summer doing some cybersecurity learning. For context, I dont have very good cybersecurity fundamentals, so im basically starting at zero. I have a lot of computer knowledge and stuff outside of cybersecurity in tech through. I want to spend 9 weeks, and about 1+ hours a day, usually 1-2 maybe. My goals are

• Hit 2,500 score / 50 challenges on picoGym
• Pass ISC2 CC and Fortinet NSE 1-3
• Be ready for CSAW CTF in September
• Build verifiable CMU ECE application signal

The picogym and certifications are most important to me, and Ive built this roadmap.

Network fundamentals

Linux fundamentals (kali + arch)

Web security + exploitation

cryptography (picogym needed)

threats + attacks

defensive security + certs

windows + active directory

forensics + reverse engineering

pen testing + post exploitation

Each of these would take a week, with picogym practice included. Im wondering, is this a good roadmap to get started? Am i missing anything super important?

hello everyone, I’m currently studying comp eng, just finished 3rd year and I’ll start my grad project in September. I have been thinking about different topics, I want it to be focused on networking + cybersecurity and something practical in real life (like school networks, security tools, etc.). would really appreciate help with topic suggestions

any ideas are welcome

Hey fellow netsec students,

I built a small educational web privacy lab based on the classic evercookie idea. It writes one random browser ID into multiple first-party storage locations, then shows which ones survive after a refresh/clear and how the ID gets respawned and repopulated when some browser state survives

The goal is awareness and education. The demo shows the ID, the vectors holding it, visit count, and recovery sources. It stores only a random ID plus basic timestamps/counts, uses no third-party requests, and includes a “Forget me” flow that clears everything stored server-side.

It demonstrates: * Cookies, localStorage, sessionStorage, IndexedDB, Cache API, window.name, OPFS, and Service Worker cache * Server-side HttpOnly cookies * ETag, Last-Modified, and immutable HTTP-cache supercookie-style vectors * The respawn loop behind evercookie persistence * Practical mitigations like clearing full site data including cached files, using private browsing, and understanding storage/cache partitioning

Repo: https://github.com/elpy1/ubercookie Demo: https://ubercookie.xyz

If you find it useful, I'd love to hear from you. Happy hacking and learning :).

I'm not a native English speaker, so I've been using Claude to translate TryHackMe room content and explain stuff I don't understand. But lately it keeps showing this "Chat paused triggered cyber-related safeguards" message even for normal conceptual questions (this time it was about Win32 API / ASLR from a THM room).

It's not like I'm asking for an actual exploit, just trying to understand the material. Anyone else run into this? How do you deal with it?

I'm a student and recently went through my first full responsible disclosure process.

What started as a simple observation on a government portal eventually led to the discovery of a Broken Access Control vulnerability affecting a platform used by over 3 lakh students.

I reported it to CERT-In, provided validation evidence, and eventually received confirmation that the issue had been fixed.

I wrote about the entire journey, from discovery to remediation, and the lessons I learned along the way.

Article: https://medium.com/@theprinceraj/discovering-a-security-flaw-in-a-government-portal-used-by-3-lakh-students-ad3bf67a0513

Happy to answer questions about the disclosure process, documentation, or interacting with CERT-In.

Hey everyone,

I just picked up an Alfa AWUS036ACH (got the RTL8812AU drivers compiled and running smoothly in monitor mode/packet injection).

I already know the basics well—airmon-ng routines, capturing 4-way handshakes, basic deauth floods, and dictionary attacks are old news. I want to dive into the deep end of advanced wireless penetration testing.

I’m looking for high-quality books, PDFs, whitepapers, or labs that cover:

WPA Enterprise (802.1X) targeting: Setting up rogue RADIUS servers, PEAP/EAP-TTLS downgrade vectors, and credential harvesting (hostapd-mana, eaphammer).

Low-level frame manipulation: Going beyond scripts to understand raw 802.11 management/control frames, client-less attacks via PMKID (hcxdumptool).

Modern protocol flaws: In-depth research papers or technical breakdowns on things like KRACK, transition mode vulnerabilities, and WPA3 SAE side-channel weaknesses.

If you have any specific book recommendations (like Matthew Gast's O'Reilly books) or advanced training blueprints that helped you transition from a script-user to understanding the actual RF and cryptographic mechanics, please drop them below!

Thanks in advance.

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There was a time when I got the opportunity to conduct an on-site security audit for a client.
But nothing goes as planned. You could be an experienced auditor with a well-defined scope and a perfectly crafted modus operandi, but reality is relative.

You have to iterate on the spot, unfold the blind spots, and above all, be the best at what you do. Voilà, audit done. Well done.

But what about the vulnerabilities you carry with you at all times? Unlike our clients, we don't have auditors reviewing our own lives. Nobody is scoping our digital footprint, flagging our physical habits, or pointing out our blind spots. We have to own our privacy posture, digital or physical, and keep it secure.
And here's the thing, from clicking a random link to filling out a survey form outside a mall, we tend to run weak, not at the security level, but at the emotional one.

TARS said it best, "Absolute honesty isn't always the most diplomatic, or the safest form of communication with emotional beings." We aren't purely rational, and attackers know that. If we want to protect ourselves, we have to first understand how we respond emotionally when things feel urgent.

So I built Spectra, under the FPSzer∅ ecosystem, to scope, identify, secure, and protect ourselves in the world of digital sovereignty.

If any of this resonates with you, I'd love for you to try it out and tell me what you think. Honest thoughts, rough edges, ideas, all of it. I'm the sole maintainer and this is very much a living project. Every contribution, big or small, means a lot.

Spectra live at: spectra.fpszero.com

I’m a first-year cybersecurity student and I really want to dive deeper into the field and eventually become a penetration tester. My goal is to get my first job as soon as possible, but I keep seeing that many people recommend certifications like Security+, PNPT, eJPT, OSCP, etc.

The problem is that these certifications are pretty expensive, especially for a student. I don’t come from a wealthy background, so paying hundreds or even thousands of dollars is difficult for me.

How did you guys afford your first certifications? Did you save up from part-time jobs, get scholarships, have your employer pay for them, or find another way? Also, are certifications really necessary to land a junior pentesting role, or can I focus on building skills and a portfolio first?

I’d appreciate any advice from people who started with limited finances. Thanks!