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Andy Gill

Personal blog · blog.zsec.uksecurityprogramming

Andy Gill writes ZephrSec, a personal blog at blog.zsec.uk about security and programming. Since 2016, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “The day I trolled the entire internet: accidental research project CVE-2020-1350”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-11, and you can follow it by feed.

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11mentions?
10HN people?
2016–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2020

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this post on CVE-2020-1350 research, cited in a thread where a supposed working exploit appeared on GitHub about 48 hours after the vulnerability was publicised.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Andy Gill/ZephrFish's blog site, lms.zsec.red for Red Team course. ZephrSec.com covers posts of offense, defense and general security.

Most-linked posts?

  1. The day I trolled the entire internet: accidental research project CVE-2020-1350
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-07-15

What Hacker News says?

  1. gruez · 2020-07-30
    >it took about 48 hrs from publicizing the vuln to a working exploit to appear on Github. a real one? someone was trolling with a fake one https://blog.zsec.uk/cve-2020-1350-research/

    Comment linking /cve-2020-1350-research/

    on “What Is the PCI of Bank Payments?”
  2. beefhash · 2020-07-15

    Submitted The day I trolled the entire internet: accidental research project CVE-2020-1350 as a story · 56 points

    HN discussion
  3. pedro84 · 2026-04-04

    Submitted Autonomous Vulnerability Hunting with MCP as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  4. zephr · 2017-11-01

    Submitted How to Hack IPv6: A Pentester's View as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. wslh · 2026-07-16

    Submitted Harnessing Harnesses as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  6. based2 · 2020-09-26

    Submitted ZeroLogon(CVE-2020-1472) – Attacking and Defending as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. zephr · 2020-07-20

    Submitted HoneyPoC: Data Analytics from the FakePoC of CVE-2020-1350 as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. enigmabridge · 2020-02-20

    Submitted Pentest Reports as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. DyslexicAtheist · 2017-12-14

    Submitted XXE – Things Are Getting Out of Band as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. grey-area · 2017-01-10

    Submitted Web App Testing – Methods to the Madness as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. adamnemecek · 2016-06-07

    Submitted Pwning Pornhub as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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