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Malwarebytes
AUGUST 10, 2021
Last week, The Record broke the news that a self-described “pen tester” for the infamous Conti ransomware gang, who goes by the handle m1Geelka, had leaked manuals, technical guides, and software on the underground forum XSS. m1Geelka’s rant starts: Dumb divorce, not work.
ForAllSecure
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
To help more people to become penetration testers, Kim Crawley and Phillip L. I thought I would live my life on a mountain top staring at the night skies through some massive university-sponsored telescope. But what does the day to day look like for the average pentester? And yeah, there’s some of that.
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Malwarebytes
AUGUST 10, 2021
Last week, The Record broke the news that a self-described “pen tester” for the infamous Conti ransomware gang, who goes by the handle m1Geelka, had leaked manuals, technical guides, and software on the underground forum XSS. m1Geelka’s rant starts: Dumb divorce, not work.
ForAllSecure
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
To help more people to become penetration testers, Kim Crawley and Phillip L. I thought I would live my life on a mountain top staring at the night skies through some massive university-sponsored telescope. But what does the day to day look like for the average pentester? And yeah, there’s some of that.
SC Magazine
JUNE 24, 2021
It claimed to have accessed the police system using a zero-day vulnerability in a VPN. This would be open to other threat actors to post data leaks. Babuk, the ransomware group behind the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department attack in April, has shifted its strategy from data encryption to data theft.
Veracode Security
DECEMBER 16, 2020
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NetSpi Executives
APRIL 27, 2024
Penetration testing , also called pentesting or pen test , is a cybersecurity exercise in which a security testing expert, called a pentester, identifies and verifies real-world vulnerabilities by simulating the actions of a skilled threat actor determined to gain privileged access to an IT system or application.
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