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Best Wi-Fi Security & Performance Testing Tools for 2022

eSecurity Planet

With other vulnerabilities such as sharing devices and Wi-Fi access with family members or lax password hygiene, security becomes a real challenge. Wi-Fite2 is a wireless network auditor designed to use all known methods for retrieving the password of a wireless access point (router). Such challenges exist in the office, too.

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9 Best Penetration Testing Tools for 2022

eSecurity Planet

Best Password Crackers. Password cracking consists of retrieving passwords stored in computer systems. System administrators and security teams (and hackers) can use them to spot weak passwords. The software combines various techniques to crack passwords. Useful links. Download and install Amass.

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WP Fastest Cache Vulnerabilities Discovered

SiteLock

This plugin creates a static, HTML version of the WordPress user’s website, and was developed to help WordPress site owners improve their site’s security performance. Ironically enough, for a short period of time security performance was impacted on some sites with the plugin installed.

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Top Open Source Security Tools

eSecurity Planet

Features include: Automatic detection and fixing of open source dependency vulnerabilities; integration of security vulnerability tools into git repositories already in use; and avoiding attacks through scaled secure development practices across dev and ops teams. It combines several approaches to password cracking into one package.

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Authenticating With Your API

ForAllSecure

mapi run <target> <duration> <spec> Note that basic authentication does not protect the username and password by itself. API Security. Performance. Prime Your APIs for Performance. They are simply encoded with base64 in transit, but not encrypted or hashed. Validation. In As Little As 5 Minutes.

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The Best Way to Detect Threats In the Cloud?

Anton on Security

Many organizations are hugely challenged here, and recent data indicates that cloud environments face a befuddling mix of old and new threats (from 1980s-style password guessing to 2020s container escapes). Simply replicating data center threat detection controls that worked well on-premise to the cloud is not likely to lead to greatness ?

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The Best Way to Detect Threats In the Cloud?

Security Boulevard

Many organizations are hugely challenged here, and recent data indicates that cloud environments face a befuddling mix of old and new threats (from 1980s-style password guessing to 2020s container escapes). Certainly, good threat detection must aim at realistic threats that affect public cloud environments.