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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 ...

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 ...

While current artificial intelligence (AI) agents and large language models (LLMs) continue to have significant issues in finding vulnerabilities and conducting penetration tests, they are already ...

Vulnerability scanning is a common practice for businesses to verify and harden their security controls, and because of its popularity, you have at some point or another, heard that it can replace ...

Penetration testing, or pen-testing, aims to identify weaknesses in enterprise security, but the tools and techniques of pen-testers are actively being exploited by hackers, BlackBerry has warned. In ...

Definition: Penetration testing is a process in which a security professional simulates an attack on a network or computer system to evaluate its security—with the permission of that system’s owners.

Following on from our recent post about Pen testing for businesses, we wanted to talk a bit about the idea behind DIY pen testing. If you’re not familiar with the term – pen testing is short for ...

Secure-by-design systems, segmented networks, and logging and monitoring are among the best ways to defeat cyber adversaries, according to penetration testers. That is according to the National Cyber ...