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Top 10 web hacking techniques of 2025

Welcome to the Top 10 Web Hacking Techniques of 2025, the 19th edition of our annual community-powered effort to identify the most innovative must-read web security research publis...

Feb 5, 2026 UTC
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The Fragile Lock: Novel Bypasses For SAML Authentication

TLDR This post shows how to achieve a full authentication bypass in the Ruby and PHP SAML ecosystem by exploiting several parser-level inconsistencies: including attribute pollutio...

Dec 10, 2025 UTC
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Introducing HTTP Anomaly Rank

HTTP Anomaly Rank If you've ever used Burp Intruder or Turbo Intruder, you'll be familiar with the ritual of manually digging through thousands of responses by repeatedly sorting t...

Nov 11, 2025 UTC
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HTTP/1.1 must die: the desync endgame

Abstract Upstream HTTP/1.1 is inherently insecure and regularly exposes millions of websites to hostile takeover. Six years of attempted mitigations have hidden the issue, but fail...

Aug 6, 2025 UTC
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Repeater Strike: manual testing, amplified

Manual testing doesn't have to be repetitive. In this post, we're introducing Repeater Strike - a new AI-powered Burp Suite extension designed to automate the hunt for IDOR and sim...

Jul 15, 2025 UTC