ToxSec

ATM Jackpot (DEF CON 18, 2010) – Barnaby Jack rolled a real ATM onstage and made it spew cash with a remote exploit. The demo coined the term “jackpotting” and forced ATM vendors to overhaul firmware security. #Defcon #Hackers

Big payouts don’t come from luck. they come from showing up when others didn’t. #infosec

if your bug doesn’t work on friday, try again monday. servers need weekends too. #bugbounty

no better feeling than watching your payload echo back in the response. #bugbounty

Napster Ninja Rename (2000) – Teenagers flooded Napster with fake “Britney Spears.mp3” files that actually played dial-up modem noises—early anti-piracy trolling by pirates themselves. #InfoSec

Ensure your JWTs are secure: enforce strict algorithms, employ robust keys, and review those claims. Explore more insights here: toxsec.com/p/hacking-jwts-a-… #CyberSecurity #ApplicationSecurity

The 414s (1983) – A group of Milwaukee teens dialed into dozens of government and corporate systems—including Los Alamos National Lab—sparking the first U.S. Senate hearing on computer crime. #Hackers

Explore every parameter thoroughly. Go beyond just testing id=. Experiment with integer fuzzing, use negative values, encoded payloads, and delve into nested JSON keys. Even "read-only" parameters can hide IDOR or injection vulnerabilities. #CyberSecurity #PenTesting

The very first webcam (1991) pointed at a coffee pot at Cambridge so sysadmins knew when to refill it. #IT

the amount of notes i take just to rediscover the same endpoints later… #bugbounty

securing rag is like securing a search engine that doesn’t know when to shut up. #AIsecurity

sometimes the only vulnerable thing is my patience. #bugbounty

funny how bug bounties turn into archaeology… digging through layers of old code nobody’s touched in years. #cybersecurity

How do you keep motivation up during those endless triage silences? #Triage

Check old API versions. Developers rarely fully decommission /v1/ or /beta/ endpoints. Send OPTIONS/TRACE requests and diff responses to find legacy logic. #Bug Bounty

funny how every scope has at least one API nobody remembers deploying. #bugbounty

Review JavaScript for secrets. Run linkfinder or JSFScan to extract endpoints and API keys from front-end scripts. Many bounty-winning chains start with a forgotten token. #BugBounty

What’s the most surprising place you’ve discovered a hard-coded secret?

half the battle is convincing yourself to hit “send” on the report. #bugbounty

T-Mobile Sidekick Data Heist (2004) – A 21-year-old exploited a poorly secured proxy to steal Paris Hilton’s celebrity contacts and photos, exposing the weakness of early carrier web portals. #Hackers