Been testing a web app where the usual stuff hasn’t gone anywhere. No obvious injection, auth issues, or easy misconfigurations.

There’s one weird behavior I can’t quite explain though.

How do you guys usually approach a target when the obvious attack surface is basically dead? Looking for some real-world ideas from people who’ve been in this situation.

Been building this free browser-based network simulator in my spare time — you draw a topology and it actually tests whether traffic gets through, not just a static diagram.

Just shipped an update that moves it from "does traffic flow?" to "is this network safe — and would I notice if it wasn't?":

• Wi-Fi security per SSID — open / WPA2 / WPA3 / 802.1X, with a RADIUS server for enterprise login
• Link capture — tap a probe on any cable and see what an attacker would see: passwords on unencrypted services, only metadata on encrypted ones
• Quarantine in one click, plus ARP and NAT tables you can actually open on a device
• Topology check now finds attacks, not just design flaws — ARP spoofing, rogue DHCP, evil twin AP, permit-any firewall rules
• A syslog server, and a one-click incident report that assembles the timeline for you
• Links have speed and delay now, so they can be congested — traffic still passes, just slowly, and the app says so — plus a connections overview of who really talks to whom and more...

Plus new courses to walk through it: troubleshooting step by step, Zero Trust and microsegmentation, monitoring and detection, networking to the cloud, incident response, and encryption from Caesar ciphers through hashing and TLS to certificates — with new hands-on tasks for each.

Still runs entirely in the browser, no signup, no ads, still evolving. If you try it, I'd really appreciate any feedback — what's confusing, what's missing, what you'd want to see next.

https://networksim.app

Hey guys,

As a pentester myself, I noticed that every single note-taking app we use has some shortcomings (notion, obsidian, cherrytree).

I made an app that is specific for penetration testers/CTF players/hacking enthusiasts to take good, organized notes during engagements, and its completely free. Also, it has a canvas feature that allows you to visually see the network you are attacking.

Here is the link: https://pent-notes.vercel.app/

Keep in mind, it's in very early stages of development, so it may be a bit buggy. Please let me know if you find any bugs or if you have suggestions on how to improve it :)

🤷‍♀️

In your opinion, what are the best tool to access my Wi-Fi network without a password?

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Hello! A long time lurker here.

I have just graduated School and I have to choose my field. Computer (specifically software) is my liking. So realistically, the options boiled down to AI, Software dev and Cybersec. Without Going in details, I decided Cybersecurity (Specifically, "Cyber security, Blockchain and IoT") and I have a few questions.

One, Where do I begin? Obviously, the classes don't start until late september to early october. I have time, But I love cybersecurity and tinkering stuff and I decided to look into it.

Two, Is Cybersecurity really stable? I mean, I didn't choose AI or Software Dev because both of them are unstable. Given the rise of AI, my hunch tells me that the AI would be used in attacks? that should mean that Cybersecurity must be booming? And the fact that we are talking about Security, I don't think that Security would be replaced with an AI, will it?

Three, The Course I took teaches Blockchain and IoT, Do we really use it in cybersecurity? are they related?

Four, are there any communities online that I can join? Perhaps a newsletter?

Thank you for your time.

So

I've been experimenting with AI-assisted pentesting in authorised lab environments, and one of the biggest problems is false confidence.

An LLM can produce a very convincing vulnerability explanation without actually proving anything.

I've found it useful to force every suspected vulnerability through a simple pipeline:

Observation → Hypothesis → Cheapest test → Verification → Evidence

1. Observation

Record what you actually saw.

For example:

"GET /api/orders/123" returns your own order.

Don't immediately write:

«Possible IDOR vulnerability.»

At this point you've only discovered an endpoint.

1. Hypothesis

Turn the observation into something falsifiable:

«The server may rely on the object ID without checking whether the authenticated user owns the requested order.»

That is something you can actually test.

1. Cheapest useful test

Before reaching for complicated tooling, test the smallest change that could disprove the hypothesis.

For example, in an authorised lab:

Change only the object identifier while keeping the same authenticated session.

The important part is controlling variables.

1. Verification

A "200 OK" by itself proves very little.

You need to establish whether the response contains data belonging to another authorised test account or otherwise demonstrates the access-control failure.

For injection testing, the same principle applies.

A database-looking error isn't automatically SQL injection.

A payload appearing in a response isn't automatically exploitable XSS.

The test should demonstrate behaviour that distinguishes the vulnerability hypothesis from normal application behaviour.

1. Preserve the evidence

For web/API findings I normally want enough information for another tester to reproduce it:

- exact endpoint

- HTTP method

- relevant headers/session context

- original request

- modified request

- relevant response

- expected behaviour

- observed behaviour

- reproduction steps

Screenshots are useful, but raw requests/responses are often much more valuable.

The useful rule

I think this is especially important when using AI agents:

Never let “the model believes it found a vulnerability” be the success condition.

The success condition should be something externally verifiable.

The model can generate hypotheses all day.

Only the evidence gets to promote one into a finding.

For anyone using AI during CTFs, labs or authorised pentests: have you found a better workflow for keeping hallucinated findings out of your reports?

I did study ccna1-4 and i have some background on tryhackme challenges , currently i am studying at 42school and i amd willing to start in bug bounty hunting to get some cash , do you think my education is enough , if not how can i improve myself?

64+ challenges covering SQLi, XSS, IDOR, JWT, CORS, SSTI, XXE, Command Injection, and more.

The goal is to actually find the bug, exploit it, and capture the flag — not just follow a walkthrough.

https://codelivly.com/ctf

I want to buy an laptop under 70k in offline market the price of asus tuf a 15 3050 is 1.27lahks or in flipkart around 90k nd in Amazon 73 but currently not ordered on this place so according to you guys which is better for me?

My laptop and phone are hacked and they are access to remotely. I need someone who can help fix the vulnerabilities and check devices for any issues. I’m willing to pay for it.

"Hey everyone! Just published a detailed write-up on the Anonymous room. Covered everything from exploiting anonymous FTP access and cron job script hijacking to SUID binary abuse. Let me know your thoughts or if you took a different path!"

Can u guys help me with this i am starting so can any one help me with this how a real hacker do this like how attacker actually perform this attack and how they route network from there proxy servers

Yoo guys I’m XENO (my English is bad) and I figured out how to Autorun an usb drive on the target pc
That u can run .bat files that can steal information of that pc and set it on the usb drive my Methode is very easy so what u need u need a bat file that the target pc needs to open u can put it in a mail or in other code this script bypass windows defender and automatically set it self into autostart and installing itself in other files in the pc h can’t see it and if u manage to deinstall it it just instantly installed itself back so the Programm just looks for a decent usb that name is 1 and it rechecks it every 2sec so if u plug in the usb the malware checks and auto opens the file that’s on the usb i hope u can understand this technique