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Ali Dak/Security researcher & founder/Istanbul

I break into web apps, APIs, mobile apps, Active Directory and internal networks, then build products from what I learn.

Selected work

VulnTracker home page: a security-posture dashboard listing open critical CVEs next to the headline about patching before attackers reach you.
LiveSecurity SaaS

VulnTracker

  • SaaS
  • Security

Vulnerability intelligence for the software you actually run. Pick your vendors and products; new CVEs are matched against them and you are told what to patch, in what order, and how.

Role
Founder, VulnTracker LLC
Does
Alerts over email, Telegram or Slack · Kanban triage board · watchlists · exports
Data
NVD · CISA KEV · EPSS · SSVC · vendor advisories
Open
Public CVE catalog, no account needed
vulntracker.io ↗
Bowerbird home page with the headline Every file, beautifully found, and Download for Mac button.
LaunchingMac app · by DAKCYBER

Bowerbird

  • Mac native
  • Productivity

A private, visual companion to Finder. Shelves you can see, plain-English search, and on-device OCR for text inside images and PDFs. It remembers where every download came from.

Role
Built at DAKCYBER
Platform
Native macOS app
Privacy
Runs on your Mac. No account, nothing uploaded
Model
Pay once, no subscription
getbowerbird.app ↗
Warden preview: a coding agent's commands on the left, Warden's evidence log on the right showing allowed and blocked actions.
Coming soonMac app · by DAKCYBER

Warden

  • Mac native
  • Security
  • AI agents

A menu-bar checkpoint between AI coding agents and your Mac. Routine work goes straight through; reading your keys, wiping folders or piping a script into a shell is stopped. The grey areas come to you.

Role
Built at DAKCYBER
Works with
Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and others
Keeps
A local evidence log of every allowed and blocked action
not public yet
In developmentMac app · by DAKCYBER

Agent command center (working title)

  • Mac native
  • AI agents
  • Dev tools

A native macOS command center that finds every AI coding-agent session on your Mac and shows what each is doing, its subagents and tasks, and what needs you. All local.

Role
Built at DAKCYBER
Sees
Sessions, subagents, tasks and anything waiting on you
Data
Stays on your Mac
not public yet
DAKCYBER home page: Cyber security and secure software, under one roof.
LiveCompany · Teknopark İstanbul

DAKCYBER

  • Consulting
  • Pentest

The cybersecurity company I founded. Offensive security work for clients, plus the research and products on this page.

Role
Founder
Pentest
Web · API · mobile · Active Directory · internal networks
Also
Vulnerability research · secure software development · custom security labs
dakcyber.com ↗

Retiredlandingvideo.comLanding page to promo video in 30 seconds. Shipped, then shut down. The lessons stayed, the domain didn’t.

OffSec Proving Grounds

53 vulnerable machines built for OffSec Proving Grounds: attack scenarios that chain a real CVE from foothold to root, and Defend variants that teach the patch.

Latest ten

  • Defend · Aug 2026Live
    CVE-2026-72603WireGuard VPN tunnelHarden against arbitrary command execution.
  • Defend · Aug 2026Live
    CVE-2026-72875DokployHarden a self-hosted deployment platform against arbitrary command execution.
  • Attack · Aug 2026Releasing
    CVE-2026-72864 / 72875 / 72876Redacted until releaseNew CVE attack scenario.
  • Grimoire · Aug 2026Releasing
    CVE-2026-15734Redacted until releaseNew Grimoire content.
  • Defend · Aug 2026Live
    CVE-2026-69083SiYuanHarden a knowledge platform against arbitrary SQL execution.
  • Defend · Aug 2026Releasing
    CVE-2026-7818Redacted until releaseNew Defend (patching) scenario.
  • Defend · Aug 2026Live
    CVE-2026-68771ComfyUIHarden against arbitrary command execution.
  • Defend · Aug 2026Live
    CVE-2026-41167JellyStatHarden against a SQL injection that lets attackers run arbitrary queries.
  • Defend · Aug 2026Live
    CVE-2026-52680Apache Kyuubi SQL gatewayHarden against arbitrary file write.
  • Defend · Aug 2026Releasing
    CVE-2026-59243Redacted until releaseNew Defend (patching) scenario.

View all 53 machines →

Public CVE exploits

16 proof-of-concept exploits for recent CVEs, each with a write-up of the bug in its README. Python and Bash.

Other projects

  • loupeSingle-binary intercepting HTTP(S) proxy with a Burp-style web UI. Go standard library only.Go
  • autowsdlAutomates pentesting of SOAP/XML web services and routes the traffic through Burp.Python
  • go-fuzzerWeb fuzzer with wordlists and templates.Go
  • muhIDSPyQt5 visualisation of a simple signature-based network IDS.Python
  • webcheckTakes a list of domains and checks for working HTTP and HTTPS servers.Go
  • ethernaut-challengesSolutions to the Ethernaut smart-contract security wargame.Solidity
  • tr-keymapKeymap JSON for the Turkish (TRQ) keyboard layout.

Come to my house

The desk, four screens, a view of Istanbul and a glass of tea. Every screen opens a piece of work.

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Dispatch

Build-in-public notes from an indie founder. Occasional, when there’s something worth saying.

Contact

Email
alidak583@gmail.com
X
@0xdak_
GitHub
0xdak
LinkedIn
ali-dak
Company
dakcyber.com
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