Security

Building an Offline APK Security Analyzer in Flask Project #10 of the 100 Vibe Coding Projects challenge I’ve been doing APK security analysis manually for years — pulling the file, running jadx, grepping through decompiled source, eyeballing the manifest. It works, but it’s slow and the output lives in a terminal window that disappears the moment you close it. This week’s project: wrap that entire methodology into a local web tool. Upload an APK, get a structured risk report in your browser. No internet required, nothing stored, APK deleted the moment analysis completes. ...

I wanted a single place to read cybersecurity news from the sources I already trust — SANS ISC, Bruce Schneier’s blog, Brian Krebs, Bleeping Computer, and Zack Whittaker’s This Week in Security. I wanted something purpose-built for security, with AI-generated summaries short enough to scan quickly. The result is SlashSec: a single HTML file, no build step, no server, no dependencies beyond a free Groq API key. The Prompt The core instruction to the LLM was deliberately narrow: ...

Prompt Used: Build an interview simulator, for an upcoming job interview for a senior cybersecurity role. Generate flashcards which will give me appropriate vocabulary for risk, governance, leader, team building, story-telling in STAR format, context-action-impact frameworks. The web-based app, should help me practice consistently by keep track of my effort in terms of practice time, weak areas, strengths and allow me to add sources for topics, content, role specific job descriptions if available. Example Role: Director SOC ...