Piyush Kumawat
Posts from SecurityCipher.
DevSecOps From Laptop to Production: A Practical Security Pipeline Guide
How software travels from a developer’s editor to a live server – and where security checks sit along the way. Every tool…
The CVE Flood Is a Lie: How to Hunt When AI Dumps 36% More Bugs But Exploitation Only Grows 10%
Your vulnerability scanner ran overnight. Your inbox has 47 new CVE alerts. Slack is pinging you about a “critical” flaw in a…
RAG Poisoning in 2026: A Practical Playbook for Hacking Answers Through Your Knowledge Base
Your support bot knows the refund policy. Your internal copilot cites the employee handbook. Your sales assistant pulls answers from a folder…
Secrets That Pay: Hunting Valid Credentials with TruffleHog for Bug Bounties
Most secret scanners dump hundreds of high-entropy strings and leave you to guess which ones still work. That is a terrible way…
Software Supply Chain Security in 2026: Packages, Pipelines, and Provenance
Most teams still treat supply chain security like a compliance checkbox: generate an SBOM once a quarter, turn on Dependabot, call it…
I Ran Codex Security on a Shop API Lab: 14 Bugs, $1.64, Full Playbook
Hands-on OpenAI Codex Security CLI guide: scan a Flask shop API, get 14 findings, threat model, remediations, GitHub bulk-scan, and a real…
How I Would Hack Your Startup in 24 Hours (Real-World Pentest Guide)
Give me your company name and 24 hours. That is usually all it takes to go from knowing nothing about a startup…
Web Cache Poisoning in 2026: A Practical Playbook (One Request, Every Victim)
Most web bugs hit one victim at a time. Web cache poisoning is different, and that is exactly why it is worth…
Is AI Killing Bug Bounty? What the 2026 CVE Flood Really Means for Hunters
Ask any bug bounty hunter how 2026 is going and you will get one of two answers. Either “I have never found…
AI Pentest Tools in 2026: What Actually Works (T3MP3ST, PentestGPT, Caido and More)
Half the bug bounty writeups on my feed this week were not about a new vulnerability class – they were about a…