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Penetration Testing vs. Vulnerability Testing

eSecurity Planet

Many cybersecurity audits now ask whether penetration testing is conducted and how vulnerabilities are detected and tracked. These questions ask IT teams to consider how frequently security is tested from the outside via penetration testing and from the inside via vulnerability testing. File servers.

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Kali Linux Penetration Testing Tutorial: Step-By-Step Process

eSecurity Planet

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?

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Penetration Testing Remote Workers

SecureWorld News

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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Ransomware Taxonomy: Four Scenarios Companies Should Safeguard Against

Cisco Security

” For some environments, this can unfold as easily as a compromised username and password being used to infiltrate a virtual private network (VPN) to access network resources. 2) An attack against a company’s engineering organization to disrupt service delivery to its customers.

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Experts found backdoors in a popular Auerswald VoIP appliance

Security Affairs

The backdoors were discovered as part of penetration testing, they allow attackers to gain full administrative access to the impacted devices. The researchers performed reverse engineering of the firmware image for the COMpact 5500, version 7.8A that was downloaded from the Auerswald support website. Pierluigi Paganini.

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34 Most Common Types of Network Security Protections

eSecurity Planet

Encryption Product Guides Top 10 Full Disk Encryption Software Products 15 Best Encryption Software & Tools Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) Breach and attack simulation (BAS) solutions share some similarities with vulnerability management and penetration testing solutions.

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10 ways attackers gain access to networks

Malwarebytes

These may be obtained by phishing, social engineering, insider threats, or carelessly handed data. Remote services—such as a virtual private network (VPN)—lack sufficient controls to prevent unauthorized access. Penetration testing can expose misconfigurations with services listed above such as cloud, VPNs, and more.

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