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How Hackers Actually Get Into Your Accounts in 2026: Complete Guide to Credential Stuffing, Phishing, Social Engineering, SIM Swap & Malware Protection How Hackers Actually Get Into Your Accounts in 2026: Complete Guide to Credential Stuffing, Phishing, Social Engineering, SIM Swap & Malware Protection By Amardeep Maroli | April 5, 2026 | Online Safety, Cybersecurity | 14 min read Home About Contact Most security advice is written backwards. It gives you a list of defences without explaining what you're defending against. "Use a strong password" — but why? What does a hacker actually do with a weak password? "Don't click suspicious links" — but what happens if you do? I think understanding the attack is what makes the defence feel worth doing. So in this post I'm going to explain the actual techniques attackers use to comprom...

What is XSS (Cross‑Site Scripting)? Complete 2026 Guide with Real Examples, Code Walkthroughs & Prevention What is XSS (Cross‑Site Scripting)? Complete 2026 Guide with Real Examples, Code Walkthroughs & Prevention By Amardeep Maroli | April 5, 2026 | Web Security, XSS, Cybersecurity | 11 min read Home About Contact Cross‑Site Scripting (XSS) is one of the most common and dangerous vulnerabilities in web applications. It allows attackers to inject malicious scripts into web pages, which execute in the browser of unsuspecting users. XSS is widely used in bug bounty programs and penetration testing because it can lead to session hijacking, account takeover, and data theft. This post explains XSS step by step, with real stored, reflected, and DOM‑based examples, plus concrete preventio...

How Hackers Find Vulnerabilities – Step‑by‑Step Guide 2026 How Hackers Find Vulnerabilities – Step‑by‑Step Guide 2026 By Amardeep Maroli | April 5, 2026 | Cybersecurity, Ethical Hacking, Bug Bounty | 10 min read Home About Contact Understanding how hackers find vulnerabilities is one of the most important skills in cybersecurity. Ethical hackers and bug bounty hunters follow structured methodologies to discover weaknesses in systems and help organizations fix them before attackers abuse them. This post walks you through the realistic step‑by‑step process hackers use in 2026, from simple domain lookups to full exploitation and post‑exploitation. In this post: Step 1: Reconnaissance (Information Gathering) Step 2: Scanning Step 3: En...

Python for Security Testing 2026: Complete Beginner Guide — HTTP Requests, Automation, IDOR Scripts, Directory Brute Force & Real Hacking Examples Python for Security Testing 2026: Complete Beginner Guide — HTTP Requests, Automation, IDOR Scripts, Directory Brute Force & Real Hacking Examples By Amardeep Maroli | April 5, 2026 | Python Security, Ethical Hacking, Scripting | 13 min read Home About Contact There's a version of ethical hacking that's entirely about running tools someone else built. You fire up Nmap, run Nikto, launch Metasploit modules, read the output. That version will get you somewhere — but it has a ceiling. When the tool doesn't find anything, you're stuck. You don't know what to try next because you don't understand what the tool was actually doing. Python changes that. When you can write your own scripts — even simp...

What Is API Security? Complete Beginner Guide 2026 — BOLA, Broken Auth, SSRF, OWASP API Top 10 Explained With Real Examples What Is API Security? Complete Beginner Guide 2026 — BOLA, Broken Auth, SSRF, OWASP API Top 10 Explained With Real Examples By Amardeep Maroli | April 5, 2026 | API Security, Web Security, Beginner Guide | 12 min read Home About Contact When I first heard the term "API security," I nodded like I understood it. I didn't. I knew what an API was in the same vague way most developers know — it's how apps talk to each other. But what does it mean for an API to be insecure ? What exactly goes wrong? And why does it keep causing some of the largest data breaches in history? It took months of reading, practising on labs, and eventually finding real vulnerabilities to genuinely understand it. This post is my attempt to give you tha...