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Jan 6

🔐 Week 4 Scripting Challenge: Build an Auth Log Failed Login Scraper in Python

#python #security #linux #securityengineering

12 min read

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Jan 10

Week 4 Network Packet Tracing Challenge

#security #networking #linux #interview

8 min read

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Jan 11

Week 4 SQL Injection Audit Challenge

#security #python #tutorial #sql

27 min read

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Jan 12

Week 4 Firewall Labs: 4 Production-Ready Firewall Scenarios with iptables

#security #linux #networking #cybersecurity

17 min read

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Jan 14

Week 4 Challenge: Audit 35 C Code Snippets

#security #c #programming #cybersecurity

31 min read

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Jan 18

Week 5 Scripting Challenge: Secure Password Authentication

#challenge #security #python #sql

15 min read

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Jan 23

Week 6 Scripting Challenge: Building a Security Log Correlator

#python #security #tutorial #career

35 min read

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Jan 27

Week 6 Scripting Challenge: Build a TLS Certificate Security Validator

#appsec #security #python #tls

46 min read

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Feb 4

Week 6 Quiz - Audit Crypto Bugs in Web Apps

#security #appsec #python #webdev

66 min read

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Feb 13

Week 6 Quiz Audit XSS Vulnerabilities

#security #python #webdev #appsec

17 min read

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Feb 19

Week 6 OAuth2 Conceptual Quiz

#oauth #security #cybersecurity #solarwinds

10 min read

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Feb 21

Week 6 Challenge - Can You Explain the TLS Handshake?

#security #networking #interview #tls

6 min read

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Feb 25

Week 7 Scripting Challenge: JWT Token Validation

#challenge #appsec #security #python

21 min read

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Mar 2

Week 8 Challenge: Use ELK for SSH Brute-Force Detection

#linux #monitoring #security #tutorial

10 min read

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Mar 2

Week 8 Challenge: Use ELK for Port Scan Detection

#monitoring #networking #security #tutorial

11 min read

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Mar 4

Week 8 Challenge: Build an Anti-XSS Escape Encoding Framework in Python

#challenge #security #python #appsec

9 min read

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Mar 10

Week 9: Audit 70 FullStack Snippets for XSS

#security #webdev #python #javascript

57 min read

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Mar 15

Week 9: Setup AWS IAM and EC2 for Beginners

#aws #security #devsecops #tutorial

17 min read

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Mar 15

Week 9: Fish Shell Functions for Managing AWS EC2 Instances -- Save Time and Billing

#aws #security #devsecops #tutorial

10 min read

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Mar 17

Week 9: Audit 15 Code Snippets for SQL Injection

#security #python #appsec #sql

20 min read

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Mar 21

Use Suricata as An Intrusion Detection System on AWS

#aws #security #devsecops #tutorial

46 min read

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Mar 22

The LLM Dependency Test: A New Way to Interview Software Engineers in the Age of AI

#ai #career #interview #llm

11 min read

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Mar 22

Let Humans Write. Let AI Critique -- A Manifesto for Security Engineers

#security #ai #appsec #devsecops

8 min read

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Mar 25

Week 10: Security Engineering Phone Screen: 10 Questions You Must Answer Fluently

#security #appsec #interview #netsec

12 min read