Kiran Dawadi, Author at CyberSec Nerds

Detection Engineering: ELK Stack with Fleet

Intro Last month, my team and I participated in the CCDC competition – an exciting cyber defense challenge where teams

Welcome to the Hack the Code Challenge 2025, the online competition that blends coding and cybersecurity! Below are the challenges

Today, we will be doing Gunship from HackTheBox which is labeled as an easy-level Web challenge that aims at teaching AST injection

In this blog post, I’ll take you through my hands-on exploration of common web vulnerabilities using the OWASP Broken Web

Background Previously, the common way for granting authenticated access to web applications was through the use of a username and

Ambient Authority in the browser Whenever the browser sends off an HTTP request, it includes all the corresponding cookies for

FFUF, short for “Fuzz Faster you Fool” is an open-source web fuzzing tool written in Go programming language, intended for

The cyber kill chain is a series of steps that trace stages of a cyberattack from the early reconnaissance stages to the

Today, we will be doing Undetected from HackTheBox which is labeled as an medium-level box that aims at teaching package misconfigurations, binary

Today, we will be doing Doctor from HackTheBox which is labeled as an easy-level box that aims at teaching web enumeration, server