AI-driven bughunting with open source and open weights models
Bug hunting with LLMs works. The security concept of Glaswing can be applied in open source / with open-weight models. The model is exchangeable. The logic isn't.
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AI pentesting 2025 / 2026 with open source tools
I am sure you also received a cold sales call or two. AI pentesting as a Service. Is this real or hype? In the following, I test 5 different open source AI pentest tools and how they perform against a purposely vulnerable Java Web App. While 2025 has been a
Simple Zero Trust
💡 If you are interested in a high-level executive summary about the pillars of Zero Trust, read this article . Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius. George Sand Summary What problem does
Serverless GPU computing with Modal (for custom models)
Are you developing custom Machine Learning models? Are you sick of heating your house with your GPU? Do you like comfortable DevOps and ML Ops things? Well-specified setups and concise Serverless function hosting? Modal is the new kid on the block. I am not an affiliate or anything. Just
Early check on Byte Latent Transformation (Dec 2024)
The following is likely of interest to Data Science people, ML dev folks and some academics. I published the code in my personal research repo. I am not affiliated with Meta’s AI research. It may be that my understanding is not correct. If that is, please let me
Experience report: AI, LLM and data
Hello, World! This is a software-tech / coding focused article about experiences with Large Language Models (LLMs). The "AI" tech is at the peak of the current hype-cycle. But it appears that the first issues are manifesting. DALL-E vision of a bookworm in the AI era
Make Windows 11 taskbar smaller
Here is a quick way to reduce the horizontal size of the Windows 11 taskbar. I think someone in Microsoft Windows UX design still believes that the interaction design is made for touch screens. The Windows taskbar has existed since Windows 95. No need to make it big. People know
The end of (free tier) ESXi
Mergers & Acquisitions: Winners and Losers. And the winner is… Free tier? - Isn't that for marketing only? Growth incentives? Like IT trainings? Not according to Broadcom in 2024. Is Linux KVM as good as ESXi? What’s the cash price for being the best virtualization tech?
What is Zero Trust — for Executives?
On a brief and simplified high-level, Zero Trust can be defined as follows: Zero Trust is a new way of connectivity design. Since the mid-2000s, new business models have started to gain traction. Software-, Platform- and Infrastructure as a Service become common. — How to connect them all?
The Because Security migration (Q1 2024)
With every change… — Why am I doing this? Or why not? Personal growth often happens around answering this particular question. For many years, I invested time and effort into making my knowledge-base. Improving it, collecting my learnings and organizing them. So, that I can give back to