Photo by Jonathan Kemper on Unsplash The first thing I noticed while testing prompt injection defenses this year was how quickly architecture diagrams stop matching reality. A retrieval pipeline that looked clean in documentation would become tangled after a few integrations. A coding assistant that started as a single model with tool access quietly accumulated memory, … Read more
How a webhook, a local LLM, and a healthy fear of auto-blocking my own servers turned into a 24/7 tier-1 analyst. Continue reading on OSINT Team »
Image generated by AI When I was setting up my ELK lab it felt like I was in a trap. I spent three days dealing with SSL certificates and trying to hunt for threats. Setting up an ELK stack for my home lab seemed easy at first. Things got complicated when I tried to enable SSL. A days … Read more
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From Open Sources to Answers On May 9, we hosted our third Maltego Community OSINT CTF, and it delivered exactly the kind of intensity and unpredictability that makes competitive investigations so engaging. Some teams stayed near the top of the scoreboard for most of the event, but a few unexpected teams quickly moved up the rankings later on. The fight for … Read more
Last week, I was 20 minutes from pushing a hotfix. CI passed. Tests green. Then Dependabot pinged: “12 vulnerabilities found.” I clicked through. Got a list of CVE IDs. No fix commands. No “upgrade this, not that.” Just a wall of red and a vague sense of dread. I spent the next hour: Googling each CVE Checking if … Read more
Photo by RoonZ nl on Unsplash VS Code won the editor wars by becoming the Walmart of IDEs — everything available, nothing optimized. That worked fine until AI coding assistants started making the underlying editor speed matter again. When your workflow involves spinning up Claude Code sessions, running agents in the terminal, and context-switching fast between files and … Read more
The Cybersec Café Forget the movie scenes. Most days in cybersecurity aren’t about zero-days, red teaming, or duct-taped Python scripts written in the heat of an incident. The real work often revolves around data. Security professionals spend a large bulk of their time collecting, interpreting, and responding to streams of telemetry across systems, endpoints, and networks. Without … Read more