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Prompt Injection: Here's How to Actually Protect Yourself
Cybersecurity 22 min read

Prompt Injection: Here's How to Actually Protect Yourself

Prompt injection cannot be eliminated, but its impact can be contained. Learn how least privilege, strict tool controls, human approval, validation, logging, and layered defenses reduce the damage a compromised AI agent can cause.

Mythos, Fable, and the Jailbreak That Forced the U.S. Government to Step In
AI 8 min read

Mythos, Fable, and the Jailbreak That Forced the U.S. Government to Step In

Anthropic built the most powerful hacking AI ever made, then handed a caged version to the public. It was jailbroken in under 48 hours. Days later, the U.S. government made both models vanish worldwide. The story of Mythos, Fable, and what it teaches every company betting on AI.

HackTheBox - MonitorsFour Writeup
Cybersecurity 8 min read

HackTheBox - MonitorsFour Writeup

Writeup for HTB MonitorsFour — token=0 IDOR leaked MD5 creds, cracked to wonderful1, Cacti RCE via CVE-2025-24367, escaped container via unauthenticated Docker Desktop API (CVE-2025-9074) to read root off the Windows host.

HackTheBox - Interpreter Writeup
Cybersecurity 8 min read

HackTheBox - Interpreter Writeup

Writeup for HTB Interpreter — pre-auth RCE on Mirth Connect 4.4.0 via CVE-2023-43208, pulled DB creds from the config, found an internal root-owned Python service in the channel table, got root via format-string injection in a patient XML field.

HackTheBox - Facts Writeup
Cybersecurity 6 min read

HackTheBox - Facts Writeup

Writeup for HTB Facts machine — registered a user, escalated to admin via CVE-2025-2304, stole MinIO S3 credentials, downloaded an SSH private key from an internal bucket, cracked the passphrase, logged in as trivia, then abused sudo facter to execute arbitrary Ruby as root.

What is Cyber Risk Management?
Cybersecurity 17 min read

What is Cyber Risk Management?

Cyber risk isn’t just an IT problem, it’s a business decision. Learn how to identify, measure, prioritize, and manage digital threats before they become real-world damage.

423 Bugs in One Month: How AI Rewrote Firefox Security Forever
Cybersecurity 8 min read

423 Bugs in One Month: How AI Rewrote Firefox Security Forever

In April 2026, Mozilla patched 423 Firefox vulnerabilities — nearly 20× its monthly average. The engine behind it: Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview, an AI so capable at finding zero-days that Anthropic deemed it too dangerous for public release.

Privacy Online: How to See What a Website Collects About You
Cybersecurity 7 min read

Privacy Online: How to See What a Website Collects About You

Find out what you’re really giving away online. Learn how to make privacy active by default, reveal hidden trackers before you trust a website, and browse with more visibility, control, and fewer ads.

Your Linux Server Has Been Rootable Since 2017 by a 732-Byte Script
Cybersecurity 8 min read

Your Linux Server Has Been Rootable Since 2017 by a 732-Byte Script

Copy Fail (CVE-2026-31431): a 732-byte Python script roots every Linux distro since 2017 through a straight-line kernel crypto flaw. It poisons the page cache to hijack setuid binaries, leaves zero disk traces, and escapes containers. AI-found in 1 hour. 100% reliable. Patch now.

MCP Security Guide: How to Secure Tools, Agents, Identities and Data Flows
Cybersecurity 18 min read

MCP Security Guide: How to Secure Tools, Agents, Identities and Data Flows

Secure MCP starts with the right architecture. Learn how to protect tools, identities, data flows, and agents with practical security controls that actually reduce risk.

Hacking with Claude: Step-by-step Kali MCP Server Setup for Claude Desktop
Cybersecurity 10 min read

Hacking with Claude: Step-by-step Kali MCP Server Setup for Claude Desktop

What if Claude could run hacking tools for you? This guide shows you how to connect Claude Desktop to a Kali Linux machine and turn a chat interface into a smart AI-powered pentesting companion.

One pip install to Lose Everything: The LiteLLM Supply-Chain Breach
Cybersecurity 10 min read

One pip install to Lose Everything: The LiteLLM Supply-Chain Breach

One pip install was all it took. For three hours on March 24, 2026, malicious versions of LiteLLM sat on PyPI, stealing credentials and backdooring machines. Here's how it happened.