eSecurity Planet

APRIL 7, 2023

Kali Linux turns 10 this year, and to celebrate, the Linux penetration testing distribution has added defensive security tools to its arsenal of open-source security tools. Also read: 24 Top Open Source Penetration Testing Tools What Is Penetration Testing? An ethical hacking certification may help too.

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Penetration Testing

APRIL 28, 2024

486), allowed for a severe type of attack known... The post Telegram Patches Flaw in Web Version, Vulnerability Exposed User Accounts to Hackers appeared first on Penetration Testing. This flaw, found in versions up to Telegram WebK 2.0.0 (486),

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Penetration Testing

APRIL 14, 2024

Streaming giant Roku has publicly acknowledged a second data breach incident impacting approximately 576,000 user accounts. This follows an initial breach in March 2024, compromising approximately 15,000 accounts.

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Penetration Testing

JANUARY 11, 2024

CVE-2023-7028: Account Takeover via... The post CVE-2023-7028 & 5356: GitLab Addresses Account Takeover & Command Flaws appeared first on Penetration Testing.

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Penetration Testing

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

A critical vulnerability in the decentralized social networking platform Mastodon could be exploited to impersonate and take over any remote account.

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Pen Test

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Introduction Radio Frequency (RF) penetration testing, popularly referred to as RF pentesting, stands as a vital domain within ethical hacking. In the contemporary digital era, Radio Frequency (RF) penetration testing, commonly known as RF pentesting, is indispensable due to several pivotal factors that underscore its significance.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 9, 2021

Not if those companies do not take the proper security considerations into account throughout the software development life cycle (SDLC). The post Automation Paves the Way for Interactive Application Penetration Testing appeared first on Security Boulevard. Impressive, right?

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 28, 2020

With many organizations now planning their annual penetration tests ("pentest" for short), a change is needed in order to accommodate remote workers. It also begs what are you allowed to test versus what is now considered taboo considering end-users may be operating with their own personal equipment?

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Penetration Testing

APRIL 14, 2024

These vulnerabilities, ranging from critical command injection flaws to potential account compromises, require immediate attention from... The post Critical PHP Vulnerabilities Patched: Update Immediately to Mitigate Attacks appeared first on Penetration Testing.

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Pentester Academy

MARCH 29, 2023

Penetration testing is an integral part of cybersecurity, so it’s no surprise that it’s a rapidly growing role. O’Net Online reports that penetration testing roles will grow by almost 35,000 jobs by 2031, a faster-than-average growth rate. You will have two attempts to pass the certification exam. Getting started is easy!

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Penetration Testing

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Microsoft has announced a comprehensive operation against a cybercriminal syndicate known as Storm-1152, culpable for the creation of approximately 750 million counterfeit Microsoft accounts.

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Penetration Testing

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

ADCSync ADCSync uses the ESC1 exploit to dump NTLM hashes from user accounts in an Active Directory environment. ... The post ADCSync: dump NTLM hashes from user accounts in an Active Directory environment appeared first on Penetration Testing.

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Penetration Testing

MARCH 18, 2024

However, any repository created under an organization’s user account is not controllable unless the organization has adopted the GitHub enterprise-managed... The post git-alerts: detect and monitor GitHub org users’ public repositories for secrets and sensitive files appeared first on Penetration Testing.

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Penetration Testing

MARCH 22, 2024

Emora Emora allows you to search for accounts by username across social networks. Features Intuitive... The post Emora: GUI OSINT tool to search accounts by username across social networks appeared first on Penetration Testing.

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Penetration Testing

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Ducktail is a malware family that has been active since the second half of 2021 and aims to steal Facebook business accounts.

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Penetration Testing

MAY 3, 2024

The vulnerability, known as CVE-2023-40000, allows attackers to create administrative accounts,... The post WordPress Sites Under Widespread Attack – LiteSpeed Cache Plugin Exploit Puts Millions at Risk appeared first on Penetration Testing.

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Penetration Testing

MARCH 11, 2024

The attackers compromised cloud accounts and hijacked resources on... The post Attackers Exploit Decentralized CDN for Crypto Rewards appeared first on Penetration Testing.

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Penetration Testing

DECEMBER 13, 2023

LDAPWordlistHarvester A tool to generate a wordlist from the information present in LDAP, in order to crack non-random passwords of domain accounts. ... The post LDAPWordlistHarvester: generate a wordlist from the information present in LDAP appeared first on Penetration Testing.

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Penetration Testing

JANUARY 10, 2024

Cybercriminals can access users’ Google accounts through a cookie vulnerability without knowing the password.

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Penetration Testing

JANUARY 17, 2024

It provides various tools for performing reconnaissance, persistence, and pillaging of data from a Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) account. It... The post GraphRunner: Post-exploitation Toolset for Interacting with the Microsoft Graph API appeared first on Penetration Testing.

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NetSpi Executives

APRIL 27, 2024

Table of Contents What is penetration testing? How penetration testing is done How to choose a penetration testing company How NetSPI can help Penetration testing enables IT security teams to demonstrate and improve security in networks, applications, the cloud, hosts, and physical locations.

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Penetration Testing

MARCH 12, 2024

Zscaler’s ThreatLabz recently exposed a cunning scheme designed to steal Roblox accounts and much more.... ... The post Unmasking the Tweaks Malware Menace Targeting Roblox Gamers appeared first on Penetration Testing.

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NetSpi Technical

MARCH 28, 2024

Cleartext credentials are commonly targeted in a penetration test and used to move laterally to other systems, obtain sensitive information, or even further elevate privileges. This is due to the fact that the service attaches the Contributor role to the Managed Identity that is created for the attached Automation Account.

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Penetration Testing

DECEMBER 18, 2023

This incident led to the leakage of client account metadata and... The post Data Breach Alert: MongoDB Customer Hit, Logs Accessed appeared first on Penetration Testing.

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Penetration Testing

JANUARY 3, 2024

For example: Input a target username, and Telerecon efficiently crawls across multiple chats gathering profile metadata, account activity, and user... The post Telerecon: OSINT reconnaissance framework for researching, investigating, and scraping Telegram appeared first on Penetration Testing.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 13, 2019

[ NASDAQ: SZMK ] says it is investigating a security incident in which a hacker was reselling access to a user account with the ability to modify ads and analytics for a number of big-name advertisers. He acknowledged that the purloined account had the ability to add or modify the advertising creatives that get run on customer ad campaigns.

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Dark Reading

JANUARY 18, 2023

Range of Addressable Concerns Includes "Brute Forcing Accounts with Weak Passwords" and "Excessive File System Permissions."

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Penetration Testing

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Security researchers at Bitdefender have unveiled that cybercriminals are exploiting Facebook advertising to disseminate malware and usurp users’ social network accounts.

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Penetration Testing

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Clients of The Hilb Group Operating Company, LLC (Hilb) were notified of “suspicious activity” linked to a phishing attack detected within several employee email accounts, as reported by CyberNews.

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Penetration Testing

JANUARY 11, 2024

Yesterday, the SEC’s X account suddenly posted that it had approved at least one Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF).

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NopSec

JULY 3, 2017

There are many factors to account for. Now, before we proceed, let’s clarify the definition of penetration testing first, and how it’s different from a vulnerability scan. SMBMap help isolate systems where a compromised account has Admin rights and facilitates remote command execution.

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NopSec

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

With the time, effort and resources that companies dedicate to penetration testing, it can be frustrating (at best) to not be guaranteed a successful outcome. Penetration testing allows you to understand where you need to focus your attention by determining the feasibility of a particular set of attack vectors.

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NopSec

MARCH 27, 2015

Penetration tests are point-in-time adversarial tests aimed at testing the intrusion prevention, detection, and incident response capabilities and controls of an organization. Once the pen testing report is delivered, the vulnerabilities are remediated with various degree of urgency. Thanks @mubix.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 8, 2023

It is high time that every organization expands penetration testing and threat hunting to their MSPs. The recent ransomware attack against 60 credit unions was due to the lack of proactive cybersecurity in a managed service provider (MSP).

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Penetration Testing

JANUARY 4, 2024

This incident, detected by the eSentire Threat Response Unit (TRU), targeted a digital marketing professional,... The post Beware of LinkedIn: Ducktail Malware’s Sneaky ZIP Attack Revealed appeared first on Penetration Testing.

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Cytelligence

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In recent developments that have sent shockwaves through the cybersecurity community, it has come to light that over 100,000 user account credentials of ChatGPT, a popular language model developed by OpenAI, have been stolen and sold on various dark web marketplaces. The consequences of this breach are far-reaching.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

IBM Security Services today published a report detailing a raft of issues pertaining to cloud security, including the fact that there are nearly 30,000 cloud accounts potentially for sale on dark web marketplaces. The post IBM Report Shows Severity of Cloud Security Challenges appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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