Source code allegedly belonging to commercial penetration testing software Cobalt Strike has been published on GitHub, potentially providing a new path for hackers to attack companies. Penetration ...

In a world where data breaches continue to rise, organisations have become more discerning about who they trust with their ...

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Penetration testing is a highly scientific, metrics-driven approach to IT security that has been in practice since almost the dawn of the modern computing era when programmers first began conducting ...

Pen testing is an essential part of secure application development; it helps find vulnerabilities before they can be exploited, ensures the resilience of web applications, and helps organizations ...

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While traditional penetration testing (pen testing) has long been the go-to method for identifying security gaps in a organization’s network and web application, a new approach has emerged: ...

Half of all malware that tried to infect computers during the third quarter of 2019 was already known, according to a new report from WatchGuard Technologies. The other half was "zero-day" malware, ...

In the modern world of security, there is stuff you worry about and stuff you don’t. Most companies have SaaS and third-party applications, cloud infrastructure, and other systems. For much of this ...

Half of all malware that tried to infect computers during the third quarter of 2019 was already known. The other half was "zero-day" malware, which bypassed (and therefore went undetected by) ...