Security expert Wesley McGrew and his penetration testing team once found a Meterpreter shell inadvertently left behind by a previous pen tester on their client’s network. “That was one of our first ...

Penetration testers put their pants on just like the rest of us, one leg at a time. Except once their pants are on, they break into computers. Not all pen testers, however, are created equal. Whether ...

Cyberattacks have become commonplace over the last few years. No industry is immune to attacks, which have only increased in frequency and intensity as hackers and bad actors have become more ...

Besides the fact that there is no other way to really test your network, The PCI Security Standards Council finally released version 3. 2 and it now states, “To ensure resilience, service providers ...

Penetration Testing is among the most intimate cybersecurity audits that an organization can undertake. Defined by Digital Forensics as "an authorized simulated cyberattack on a computer system, ...

AI goes off the rails … because of shoddy guardrails Researchers at Pen Test Partners found four flaws in Eurostar's public ...

Since 2010, Juliana has been a professional writer in the technology and small business worlds. She has both journalism and copywriting experience and is exceptional at distilling complex concepts ...

I am a penetration tester — a.k.a. hacker, white-hat hacker, whatever you want to call it. A good-guy hacker, quote, unquote. A bad guy would be a black hat. They adopted those terms from Western ...

Speaking during the virtual (ISC) 2 Security Congress Alex Haynes, CISO at CDL, explored the various pen-testing approaches available to organizations and outlined how companies can determine which is ...

Healthcare data breaches increased 70 percent between 2010 and 2017, according to a recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. And with breaches costing healthcare ...