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vulnerabilityvia PortSwigger Research

Making desync attacks easy with TRACE

Have you ever found an HTTP desync vulnerability that seemed impossible to exploit due to its complicated constraints? In this blogpost we will explore a new exploitation technique...

Mar 19, 2024 UTC
generalvia PortSwigger Research

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
generalvia Troy Hunt

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
malwarevia Troy Hunt

Weekly Update 522: Live From Oslo with Scott Helme

Heads up: the first 7 mins is a bit quiet until we worked out the external mic was misbehaving - sorry! But get through that and have a listen to Scott's experiences with how Repor...

Sep 23, 2026 UTC
vulnerabilityvia Troy Hunt

Weekly Update 521: Breach Perception v. Reality

I think what really resonates with me this week is being able to completely turn the tables on perceptions around things like AI being the big bad hacking tool the news would have...

Sep 11, 2026 UTC
generalvia Troy Hunt

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
generalvia Troy Hunt

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
generalvia Troy Hunt

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
data-breachvia Troy Hunt

Welcoming the Sri Lankan Government to Have I Been Pwned

Today, we welcome the 48th government onboarded to Have I Been Pwned’s free gov service: Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka CERT now has access to monitor Sri Lankan government domains against t...

Aug 23, 2026 UTC
ransomwarevia Troy Hunt

Weekly Update 517: Cyber Ransoms

The current ransomware situation is a bit of a kludge (deep breath): a lot of ransomware (which often doesn't even involve "ware", it's just extortion) is carried out by kids who s...

Aug 18, 2026 UTC
generalvia Troy Hunt

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