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The Essential Guide to Radio Frequency Penetration Testing

Pen Test

Introduction Radio Frequency (RF) penetration testing, popularly referred to as RF pentesting, stands as a vital domain within ethical hacking. In contemporary times, with the exponential growth of the Internet of Things (IoT), smart homes, connected cars, and wearable devices, the importance of RF pentesting has soared significantly.

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SIEM Explained: What is SIEM and How Does it Work?

eSecurity Planet

Gartner first coined the term SIEM in 2005 to combine the technologies of security event management (SEM) and security information management (SIM). Penetration testing is one way security teams can reduce unnecessary alerts and check for missing alerts. See our in-depth look at the top SIEM tools. What is a SIEM?

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Digital Forensics

ForAllSecure

Understand that until the mid 1990s interconnectivity via the internet was largely academic. It was for UNIX systems and it was created by Dan Farmer and Wheat-say Vene-ma, who then co-authored a book in 2005 called Forensic Discovery. So we specialize in the custom penetration tests, and we write our own tools to deliver them.

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Happy 10th anniversary & Kali's story.so far

Kali Linux

This lead into WHAX in 2005, which used Slax. Longer history lesson Knoppix - Initial two weeks work Whoppix (White-Hat and knOPPIX) came about as the founder, @Muts, was doing an in-person air-gap network penetration test lasting for two weeks in 2004. There is a quick answer, and a not so quick answer.

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Top VC Firms in Cybersecurity of 2022

eSecurity Planet

Company Sector Year Status Abnormal Security Cloud email security 2019 Private Sqreen Application security 2019 Acquired: Datadog Demisto SOAR 2018 Acquired by PAN Skyhigh Cloud security 2012 Acquired: McAfee OpenDNS Internet security 2009 Acquired: Cisco Palo Alto Networks Cloud and network security 2006 NYSE: PANW. AllegisCyber Capital.

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Cyber CEO: The History Of Cybercrime, From 1834 To Present

Herjavec Group

1988 — The Morris Worm — Robert Morris creates what would be known as the first worm on the Internet. 2002 – Internet Attack — By targeting the thirteen Domain Name System (DNS) root servers, a DDoS attack assaults the entire Internet for an hour. An industry expert estimates the attacks resulted in $1.2 east coast.