RrathsaraOct 17 路 9 min readIDSLab: What Does Another IDS Stage Actually Add?TL;DR: the tool is at hashtagrr.github.io/IDSLab. The rest of this is how it came to exist. I was reading research papers on machine learning and deep learning based intrusion detection systems when rr-cyber.hashnode.dev
RrathsaraOct 15 路 18 min readThe Firewall Is the Target Now: A Practical Audit ChecklistIn 2020 I was a network security engineer at a firewall partner that had deployed a large number of firewalls across the region, from small businesses to large enterprises. When the company set out torr-cyber.hashnode.dev
HHritik ranjanOct 10 路 54 min read馃攼 Building SteganoVault: A Production-Grade Steganography Tool with Docker, Flask, MySQL, and Nginx馃摎 Table of Contents Introduction What is Steganography? Why I Built SteganoVault Project Overview Main Features Technology Stack How Steganography Works in SteganoVault System Architecture Cblogs.hritikranjan.in
SSYLVESTER BENJAMINOct 6 路 7 min readYou Can't Defend What You Can't See: Five Lessons From the 2026 Verizon聽DBIRFor eighteen straight years, Verizon's Data Breach Investigations Report told a consistent story: stolen credentials got attackers in the door more often than anything else. This year, that changed. Tbenjamin-sylvester.hashnode.dev
NNaeem HossenSep 27 路 4 min readBehind the Screens: Scaling IT Infrastructure & Operations for Live News Media Working in IT is one thing. Managing the IT infrastructure for a live, fast-paced news media organization is an entirely different beast. At a dynamic newsdesk, technology isn't just a backend supportnaeeminsight.hashnode.dev
RrathsaraSep 21 路 17 min readNetwork Data Hiding: Covert Channels and Traffic ManipulationConsider a packet capture from a corporate network segment: 23 DNS queries in 21 seconds. Nothing about that number is alarming; DNS is background noise on any live network. Two of those queries are wrr-cyber.hashnode.dev
RrathsaraSep 18 路 15 min readWindows: Where Data Hides and How It's FoundA file called Secret.exe reports 25 bytes on disk. Nothing in Explorer, nothing in a standard dir listing, and nothing in Task Manager disagrees with that number. Run dir /r instead of dir, and the sarr-cyber.hashnode.dev
RrathsaraSep 18 路 13 min readGNU/Linux: Where Data Hides and How It's FoundA filesystem can tell an investigator that everything is consistent while still leaving data outside the paths that ordinary tools inspect. Hidden filenames are the easy case. More interesting cases irr-cyber.hashnode.dev
AAlex TraySep 15 路 18 min readHow to Build an Endpoint Data Loss Prevention Strategy for Your Development TeamA developer's laptop holds more sensitive data than most people realize: API keys, database credentials, staging environment secrets, and sometimes entire copies of production data pulled down "just ffreecodecamp.org
ZZero Trust ThreadsSep 7 路 5 min readVulnerability, Threat, and Risk Are Not the Same ThingCybersecurity has a vocabulary problem. Words that have specific meanings are often used interchangeably in casual conversation. Three of the most common are: Vulnerability Threat Risk They are relatezerotrustthreads.hashnode.dev
