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Valentine’s Day has unfortunately come to a close. What follows love? Heartbreak. That’s right, it's time to dust off your best stationary and bust out the ice cream because we’re writing a series of break up letters.

Vulnerabilities can be inherited through your software supply chain, and it’s more common than we may like to admit.

Valentine’s Day has unfortunately come to a close. What follows love? Heartbreak. That’s right, it's time to dust off your best stationary and bust out the ice cream because we’re writing a series of break up letters.

What is the allure of lockpicking at hacker conferences? In this episode Deviant Ollam explains why these mechanical puzzles remain popular with hackers. Ollam, who was an early member of Toool, The Open Organization of Lockpickers, discusses his career as a physical pen tester and also provides some basic lockpicking tips.

Part one of a three-part series. Applications contain hundreds of code components. Applications are constructed similarly to automobiles: parts are sourced from multiple vendors to produce software that is then used by the consumer.

Valentine’s Day has unfortunately come to a close. What follows love? Heartbreak. That’s right, it's time to dust off your best stationary and bust out the ice cream because we’re writing a series of break up letters.

Some may remember NCSA HTTPd, a predecessor to Apache. However, what they might not know (but won't be surprised by!) is that it had plenty of bugs. Let's dive in and reproduce a classic command injection with fuzzing!

The is part three of a three part series on Property-based Fuzz Testing. This article lists a number of useful properties that are commonly used to validate the correctness and safety of code. If you are not sure how to apply property-based fuzzing to your code, this list should give you some inspiration.

To help more people to become penetration testers, Kim Crawley and Phillip L. Wylie wrote The PenTester BluePrint: Starting A Career As An Ethical Hacker. In this episode of The Hacker Mind, Kim talks about the practical steps anyone can take to gain the skills and confidence necessary to become a penetration tester.