Practical security insights for teams without a SOC

An IP vulnerability scan checks a specific IP address for security weaknesses that can be detected from the scanner’s location. It identifies reachable ports and services, gathers evidence about the software or configuration behind them, and checks that evidence for known vulnerabilities and security issues. This matters because internet-facing services remain an important route into […]

API security testing is the process of checking application programming interfaces for vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, authorization failures, unsafe input handling, and business-logic weaknesses before attackers can exploit them. Effective testing combines code analysis, dynamic scanning, fuzzing, specification-based testing, and human review across development and production. This guide explains what to test, which methods and tools to […]

By Obaida Al-Sulaiman, Information Security Manager (CISSP, GXPN, GWAPT). Reviewed September 2026. REST API security is the set of methods and controls that protect RESTful APIs from unauthorized access, data theft, and abuse. It spans authentication, authorization, encryption, rate limiting, inventory, and continuous testing. In Salt Security’s Q1 2025 survey, 99 percent of respondents said […]

API fuzzing is an automated security testing technique that floods your API endpoints with malformed, random, and unexpected inputs to find the bugs and vulnerabilities that normal testing never triggers. Instead of checking whether an endpoint returns the right answer for valid data, an API fuzzer asks what breaks when the data is wrong. This […]

An open ports security risk assessment is the process of finding every internet-facing port, identifying the service behind it, and scoring how likely an attacker is to exploit it. Not every open port is dangerous. Port 443 running patched HTTPS is fine. Port 3389 exposing Remote Desktop Protocol to the whole internet is not. This […]

The port 445 vulnerability is the security risk of exposing Server Message Block (SMB) traffic, which runs over TCP port 445, to an untrusted network. Attackers target port 445 for wormable remote code execution, ransomware, and lateral movement, and it drove the 2017 WannaCry outbreak through the EternalBlue exploit. This guide covers the key CVEs, […]

Network vulnerability scanning is the automated process of probing every host on a network, identifying the service behind each open port, and matching what it finds against a database of known vulnerabilities. It is the cheapest reliable way to see your infrastructure the way an attacker sees it. It is also widely oversold. A scan […]

Internal vs external vulnerability scanning is primarily a difference in vantage point. An external scan tests internet-facing systems from outside your network, while an internal scan tests systems reachable from inside it. External scanning answers “what can an attacker reach before gaining access?” Internal scanning answers “what weaknesses become reachable after someone is inside?” Most […]

If your WordPress site has been hacked, the fastest way to fix it is to work in order rather than panic: contain the site, find and remove the malware, close the vulnerability that let the attacker in, then harden against a repeat. This guide walks through how to fix a hacked WordPress site step by […]

Learning how to check a wordpress version in database is useful when you are locked out of the dashboard, but it comes with a catch most guides get wrong: the version is not stored as a plain row. What the database holds is the db_version schema number and a cached core-update record whose version_checked field […]

Learning how to check WordPress version without login often takes only a couple of minutes because default or lightly hardened WordPress sites may expose version clues in the page source, RSS feeds, asset URLs, and public files. Knowing the version can help with security auditing because automated tools use the same public clues for reconnaissance. […]

A WordPress file upload vulnerability is one of the most dangerous flaws a site can have, because it can lead straight to remote code execution when an attacker can place an executable file in a web-accessible location where the server will run it. These flaws live almost entirely in plugins and themes that accept uploads […]