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Enforce positive security with Cloudflare Application Profiles

Cloudflare learns the structure of your HTTP requests and identifies deviations. You can add a positive security layer that helps reduce attack surface as AI makes it easier for at...

Sep 29, 2026 UTC
generalvia PortSwigger Research

Document My Pentest: you hack, the AI writes it up!

Tired of repeating yourself? Automate your web security audit trail. In this post I'll introduce a new Burp AI extension that takes the boring bits out of your pen test. Web securi...

Apr 23, 2025 UTC
generalvia PortSwigger Research

SAML roulette: the hacker always wins

Introduction In this post, we’ll show precisely how to chain round-trip attacks and namespace confusion to achieve unauthenticated admin access on GitLab Enterprise by exploiting t...

Mar 18, 2025 UTC
generalvia PortSwigger Research

Shadow Repeater:AI-enhanced manual testing

Have you ever wondered how many vulnerabilities you've missed by a hair's breadth, due to a single flawed choice? We've just released Shadow Repeater, which enhances your manual te...

Feb 20, 2025 UTC
generalvia PortSwigger Research

Top 10 web hacking techniques of 2024

Welcome to the Top 10 Web Hacking Techniques of 2024, the 18th edition of our annual community-powered effort to identify the most innovative must-read web security research publis...

Feb 4, 2025 UTC
generalvia PortSwigger Research

Bypassing character blocklists with unicode overflows

Unicode codepoint truncation - also called a Unicode overflow attack - happens when a server tries to store a Unicode character in a single byte. Because the maximum value of a byt...

Jan 28, 2025 UTC
generalvia PortSwigger Research

Top 10 web hacking techniques of 2024: nominations open

Nominations are now open for the top 10 new web hacking techniques of 2024! Every year, security researchers from all over the world share their latest findings via blog posts, pre...

Jan 8, 2025 UTC