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10 million most popular websites
Our list of the top 10 million websites available for you to freely download
Dec 22, 20224 min read


Ruby off the Rails (CVE-2022-3704)
Understanding Ruby on Rails vulnerability CVE-2022-3704 and what it means for future-proofing code
Nov 15, 20223 min read


Lessons from Pentesting Smart Buildings
How to hack (& protect) smart devices. We share common findings from our smart building pentests.
Jul 20, 20227 min read


How safe are safe deposit boxes?
From Ocean's Eleven to The Da Vinci Code, heists of safe deposit boxes are often in the media. We take a deep dive into their security.
Jun 29, 20225 min read


A Case Study in Technical Debt: why DynamoDB might not be for you
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...
Aug 3, 20205 min read


Scraping DNS records with BlueDanube
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...
May 18, 20203 min read


Trust but verify (your tools)
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...
Nov 26, 20194 min read
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