Uphack Series

Some topics don't fit in a single post. A series is an ordered set of articles that build on each other, so you can start at part one and work down, or jump straight to the part you came for.

2 series running · 11 posts published · 1 in the works

7 parts · Complete

Security Fundamentals

A lightweight introduction to information security: from core principles like the CIA triad to cryptography, hashing, and access control.

Start with part one Series overview →
  1. 01 Introduction to Information Security
  2. 02 Foundations of Information Security - CIA Triad
  3. 03 Access Controls: Auth and Authz
  4. 04 Fundamental security principles
  5. 05 Introduction to cryptography
  6. 06 Symmetric vs Asymmetric encryption
  7. 07 Hashing in cryptography
12 parts · 4 of 12 published

Web Application Fundamentals

Before we can learn how to hack web applications, we need to understand how they work. This series goes over the basics of web apps, how they are built, and how they function, setting you up for understanding the security side of web.

Start with part one Series overview →
  1. 01 What are web applications?
  2. 02 What is a server?
  3. 03 Client vs. server side
  4. 04 Web application architectures
  5. 05 Monolithic vs. Microservices architecture models Coming soon
  6. 06 What is a URL? Coming soon
  7. 07 HTTP Protocol Coming soon
  8. 08 Cookies explained Coming soon
  9. 09 Introduction to DNS Coming soon
  10. 10 An introduction to data types Coming soon
  11. 11 What is an API? Coming soon
  12. 12 Data representation: encoding Coming soon

In the works

Written and released one part at a time. The newsletter is where each new part lands first.

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Where AI assistants earn their place in a real test, and the supervision that keeps findings real.

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