Testing Lab

Understanding how SiteGround’s proof-of-work CAPTCHA silently disrupts automated WordPress security scans and how to work around it.

Decompiling a retired .NET application reveals how a single middleware misconfiguration leads to full authentication bypass.

Why traditional API pentests miss real commerce risk and how cart tokens, checkout flows, and cross-layer auth gaps expose customer data.

LLM behavior isn't governed by a rulebook — it emerges from context, shaped by a stack of training, fine-tuning, and runtime instructions. Understanding this explains why the same model gives radically different responses to functionally identical requests.

Sometimes when conducting a Penetration Testing exercise or Red Team engagement, you might be interested in extracting password hashes or credentials of your target Windows user, without the use of Mimikatz to avoid detection. This is where you would resort to using an NTLM downgrade attack. In this article we shall discuss how you can be able to perform this...

Nick Aures guides us through a real-life pentesting moment with important lessons for authentication using industry-standard technology, in this case JWTs.