The Breach That Never Happened Issue #001

Every month, organizations ship products with security weaknesses they don’t know exist. Attackers eventually find them, and the result isn’t just technical damage, it becomes lost revenue, layoffs, disrupted services, and real harm to people who depend on those businesses.

This newsletter exists to surface those weaknesses before attackers do, explain them in practical terms, and help teams close gaps early.

Why This Matters to Me

My path into ethical hacking started years ago in Venezuela, when curiosity about systems led me to understand how easily technology could fail if not properly secured. At first, hacking felt like solving technical puzzles, understanding how systems broke and how access could be gained.

Over time, the perspective changed.

Security failures aren’t just technical wins for attackers. They cause companies to lose money, customers to lose trust, employees to lose jobs, and sometimes entire businesses to shut down. In critical sectors, the impact can go even further, affecting infrastructure and national security.

Security isn’t about breaking systems. It’s about protecting the people and organizations that rely on them.

Why Publish This Newsletter

At Penti, we continuously discover security weaknesses during pentests that attackers haven’t exploited yet. Most companies never hear about these weaknesses publicly because they get fixed quietly.

But the patterns repeat.

So instead of only fixing issues privately, we’re sharing real attack paths and weaknesses we discover, anonymized and generalized, so other organizations can learn and prevent similar risks.

Each month, we will break down:

• A real weakness discovered before attackers found it
• How attackers would abuse it
• Who would be at risk
• How to fix it
• How to detect similar issues in your own environment

No sensationalism. No breach drama. Just practical lessons.

The goal is simple: help teams discover weaknesses before attackers do.