What Is Broken Access Control? A Practical Guide

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Learn how attackers exploit broken access controls, IDOR, and privilege escalation, and discover the server-side controls, RBAC policies, and testing practices your team needs to close the gap and protect sensitive data.

Pentest Files: How A Single HTTP Header Unlocked Every Customer’s Data

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A single HTTP header. Fully client-controlled. Trusted completely by the server. In this Pentest Files, Daniel shows how modifying one value in a routine API request was enough to pull user data from every organisation on a multi-tenant SaaS platform, no special privileges required, no complex exploit chain, just a for loop and an integer.