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PIYUSH KUMAWAT · August 27, 2026

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…

PIYUSH KUMAWAT · August 25, 2026

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…

PIYUSH KUMAWAT · August 19, 2026

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…

PIYUSH KUMAWAT · August 13, 2026

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…

PIYUSH KUMAWAT · August 10, 2026

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…

PIYUSH KUMAWAT · August 3, 2026

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…

PIYUSH KUMAWAT · July 27, 2026

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…

PIYUSH KUMAWAT · July 19, 2026

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…

PIYUSH KUMAWAT · July 17, 2026

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…

PIYUSH KUMAWAT · July 16, 2026

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…