Passkeys for Small Business: A Practical FIDO Rollout Plan
A practical rollout plan for passkeys and FIDO2 security keys, with pilot steps, recovery rules, admin protections, and examples small teams can use immediately.
PlainlySec Team
Backend Monitoring Tools in 2026: Paid Platforms vs Open-Source Alternatives
The first 503 came in at 02:14 on a Saturday. By 02:31 the on-call engineer had three dashboards open, six log streams scrolling past faster than a human can read, and no idea which of the forty-two microservices was actually broken. The post-mortem found the cause in twenty seconds — a deploy of a single … Read more
Android Penetration Testing: A Step-by-Step Guide for 2026
The Android engagement started the way most do: a banking app, a hardened build, a confident dev team. Forty minutes later the tester had pulled session JWTs out of SharedPreferences, dumped a hardcoded API signing key from a native library, and bypassed certificate pinning with a fifteen-line Frida script. The device was a stock Pixel … Read more
iOS Penetration Testing: A Step-by-Step Guide for 2026
The pentest report landed on a mobile lead’s desk last quarter and the first finding was a single sentence: the application accepts any HTTPS certificate after a one-line Frida hook. Within ninety seconds of attaching to the running process, the tester had captured login traffic in plaintext, lifted a session token, and pivoted to the … Read more
Kubernetes Container Escape: Attack Paths and How to Stop Them
From privileged container escapes to Docker socket abuse, Kubernetes RBAC exploitation, and cloud metadata credential theft — this guide covers the real attack paths used in production cluster compromises, with detection using Falco, prevention with OPA Gatekeeper, and a full hardening checklist.
SIEM Alert Fatigue: How to Build a Triage Playbook That Actually Works
Most SOC teams drown in thousands of daily alerts while real threats go unnoticed. This guide walks through auditing your alert inventory, building triage decision trees, risk scoring with math instead of gut feel, and automating the repetitive work — with Splunk, Wazuh, and Elastic examples throughout.
Kerberoasting in 2026: From Foothold to Domain Admin in Four Hours
Kerberoasting remains one of the most reliable paths to domain compromise in Active Directory environments. This guide covers modern OPSEC-aware techniques, cracking RC4 and AES hashes with Hashcat, post-exploitation options, and practical Blue Team detection with Sigma rules.
AI Agent Security: When MCP Servers Become Attack Vectors
MCP (Model Context Protocol) gives AI assistants tool access to your filesystem, databases, and APIs — and attackers are already exploiting it. Learn the threat model, real attack scenarios, detection with Sigma rules, and how to harden your AI development environment.
Threat Hunting with YARA: Writing Rules That Catch Malware
Write YARA malware detection rules from scratch: rule syntax, analyzing samples to find unique indicators, advanced PE module conditions, entropy-based packing detection, and free rule collections to get started.
Hardware Hacking: Attacking Embedded Systems and IoT Devices
Introduction to hardware hacking: accessing UART debug ports with FTDI, JTAG debugging, SPI flash extraction with CH341A, firmware analysis with Binwalk, and finding vulnerabilities in embedded Linux systems.