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Refining your HTTP perspective, with bambdas

When you open a HTTP request or response, what do you instinctively look for? Suspicious parameter names? CORS headers? Some clue as to the request's origin or underlying purpose?...

May 29, 2024 UTC
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Using form hijacking to bypass CSP

In this post we'll show you how to bypass CSP by using an often overlooked technique that can enable password theft in a seemingly secure configuration. What is form hijacking? For...

Mar 5, 2024 UTC
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Weekly Update 523: Live From a Norwegian Fjord

How's that view?! With NDC Oslo now done, it's a little bit of sightseeing before heading to Denmark for GOTO in Copenhagen for Scott's and my "Cyber-broken" talk. In the meantime,...

Sep 28, 2026 UTC
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Weekly Update 520: The Unscripted Edition

I've started playing around with YouTube's "create video thumbnail", which hopefully will give me back a bit of time in my day (it used to be a manual job in Photoshop) and be a bi...

Sep 6, 2026 UTC
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Weekly Update 519: Breaches & Data Integrity

It does feel like I've bitten off too much and am now chewing like crazy this week. The 3D printing talk with Elle in Oslo, the "normal" NDC infosec talk, the cyber-broken talk wit...

Sep 1, 2026 UTC
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Weekly Update 518: IoT Doorlock Nirvana with UniFi

I genuinely think I've nailed the IoT door lock situation! Well, Ubiquiti has, but I think I've worked out how to put it all into a residential house and have it make sense. There...

Aug 24, 2026 UTC
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Weekly Update 516: Live From Vietnam

A little wind noise, a little connectivity flakiness, and a little lip-sync issues from YouTube, but look at that view! 🤩 Back to business, it's the Brinks Home FAQ I found most i...

Aug 12, 2026 UTC
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Scalable Vector Grief

I tested eight popular SVG sanitizers and bypassed six of them. In this post, I'll show you how a response header can run JavaScript in Firefox even when the response body is compl...

Oct 27, 2026 UTC
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The model isn't cooperating

Have you ever felt like a model isn't actually trying to do what you asked? Did you just ask it wrong, or is there something else at play here? In this post, I'll briefly explore t...

Oct 6, 2026 UTC
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Smashing the token limit with overlapping fragments

I'm delighted to introduce Alex, my fellow swigger who I've collaborated with in the past with tools like DOM Invader. He showed me that it's possible to exfiltrate larger tokens t...

Oct 5, 2026 UTC