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Understanding Ruby on Rails vulnerability CVE-2022-3704 and what it means for future-proofing code

How to hack (& protect) smart devices. We share common findings from our smart building pentests.

What every ethical hacker wishes developers knew about cyber security.

Why hashing and salting are key ingredients for storing passwords securely.

How do you protect your home network from cyber attacks against your employer? Read our overview of VLANs.

How we discovered two Wordpress plugin vulnerabilities: CVE-2021-43334 and CVE-2021-44692.

During a recent pentest for a client we discovered a number of devices on their network that looked interesting, after 25 years of...

A step-by-step guide to building your own Log4Shell demo, with video overview.

Vulnerabilities are discovered everyday. While some can be serious, most are not so scary that they get everyone in a (justifiable)...

FC takes a look at a proof of concept for CVE-2021-29203 (HP Edgeline Manager).

The NSA and FBI have today released an advisory (pdf) about the previously undisclosed malware called Drovorub, that has been attributed...

In this industry it can feel challenging to tell others you've made mistakes, but we believe that it's important to show not just the...

The Computer Misuse Act (1990) is 30 years old and was already out of date before it even got started. It came into effect in the UK...

DNS is the heart of all things on the internet. It is the system that lets us type in amazon.com rather than 176.32.98.166 to do our...

Many of you will remember our blog post about RIDL, FALLOUT and ZombieLoad back in 2019, hot on the heels of Spectre and Meltdown from...

2020 starts with a shift in cybersecurity and the level of transparency that we usually see from the alphabet agencies. Tuesday the 14th...

During a recent penetration test for a client we at Cygenta noticed a few odd responses from some of the scans we were doing with a tool...

You have a ton of data, gigabytes of it, all in thousands - if not hundreds of thousands - of seperate files. How on earth do you go...

I've been working on an idea for a while now that needed the ability to store and search through a large amount of data, we are not...