Penetration Testing

JANUARY 29, 2024

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 5, 2023

A pentest framework, or penetration testing framework, is a standardized set of guidelines and suggested tools for structuring and conducting effective pentests across different networks and security environments. It’s also important to return the environment to its pre-pentest settings.

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Mitnick Security

JUNE 11, 2021

If your company has invested in many penetration tests, you’re probably looking for more advanced ways of examining your security infrastructure.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 7, 2023

Pentesters work closely with the organization whose security posture they are hired to improve. Known as black , white , and gray box pentests, these differ in how much information is provided to the pentester before running the simulated attacks. Additionally, tests can be comprehensive or limited.

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Graham Cluley

JULY 24, 2023

Thanks to the great team there for their support! Reports are the critical deliverables that make pentest results actionable, but do they have to be so painful to prepare? Check out our guide to writing a killer pentest report. And … Continue reading "How to write a killer pentest report" Not anymore.

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Graham Cluley

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Thanks to the great team there for their support! Getting high-quality, actionable pentesting reports doesn’t have to take hours. Graham Cluley Security News is sponsored this week by the folks at PlexTrac. In fact, automating your processes with PlexTrac enables building a report in as little as five minutes!

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CSO Magazine

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

“We’re seeing more organizations increase the cadence of pentesting, but what we really need to achieve is continuous validation across the entire organization,” Aviv Cohen, chief marketing officer of Pentera, said in a press note.

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NetSpi Executives

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Tim’s extensive background as a security analyst, pentester, director of Red Team , and chief technology officer for leading global companies brings a wealth of insights to the table. Gaining insight into external-facing assets, vulnerabilities, and exposures presents a noisy and time-consuming challenge for security teams.

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CSO Magazine

AUGUST 4, 2022

Red teams are a necessary evil – literally – in today’s cyber threat landscape. Most organizations start with vulnerability scanning and then move into penetration testing (pentesting) , taking the vulnerability scan one step farther from guessing a vulnerability could be exploited to proving exactly how it can be.

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Mitnick Security

JUNE 30, 2021

If you’ve conducted a few successful penetration tests already, you may be wondering, “what’s next?”.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 7, 2023

It remains to be seen if Kali Purple will do for defensive open source security tools what Kali Linux has done for open source pentesting, but the addition of more than 100 open source tools for SIEM , incident response , intrusion detection and more should raise the profile of those defensive tools. Kali is built for pentesting only.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 31, 2023

A pentest report should also outline the vulnerability scans and simulated cybersecurity attacks the pentester used to probe for weaknesses in an organization’s overall security stack or specific systems, such as websites, applications, networks, and cloud infrastructure. To be truly useful, the report must be more than a simple list.

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Mitnick Security

APRIL 4, 2023

Red Team vs. Blue Team penetration testing is a safe way to identify vulnerabilities within your systems, networks, and internal infrastructure. This elite form of a pentest can show you what a threat actor accomplishes even if your cybersecurity posture is well established. But it doesn’t stop there.

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NetSpi Executives

JANUARY 30, 2024

As your company’s external attack surface expands and threat actors remain relentless, Attack Surface Management (ASM) solutions can help level up your proactive security measures by enabling continuous pentesting. This is achieved via the attack surface operations team, who manually test and validate the exposures found.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

You can either create your own pentesting program or hire an outside firm to do it for you. Once you’ve decided to put together your own pentesting team, the first step is to create a plan that assesses your most critical assets so you can secure them. The program answers what, when, why, and where tests should run.

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Mitnick Security

JUNE 14, 2021

Now that you’ve got a few concentrated penetration tests under your belt, you’re ready to put your newly enhanced security to the test. And boy, are we up for the challenge.

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Hack the Box

DECEMBER 12, 2023

A pentesting team manager’s practical checklist to help junior employees get up to speed on the ethics of hacking.

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NetSpi Executives

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Tim’s extensive background as a security analyst, pentester, director of Red Team , and chief technology officer for leading global companies brings a wealth of insights to the table. Gaining insight into external-facing assets, vulnerabilities, and exposures presents a noisy and time-consuming challenge for security teams.

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NetSpi Executives

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Tim’s extensive background as a security analyst, pentester, director of Red Team , and chief technology officer for leading global companies brings a wealth of insights to the table. Gaining insight into external-facing assets, vulnerabilities, and exposures presents a noisy and time-consuming challenge for security teams.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 28, 2023

Because these tests can use illegal hacker techniques, pentest services will sign a contract detailing their roles, goals, and responsibilities. To make sure the exercise is effective and doesn’t inadvertently cause harm, all parties to a pentest need to understand the type of testing to be done and the methods used.

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Mitnick Security

MARCH 3, 2021

Whether you’ve run one or two pentests before and are looking to up the ante, or you’ve got quite a few reports under your belt, you may be wondering about this other pentest test you’ve heard about: a Red Team operation.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The team earned $50K and 10 Master of Pwn points. Team Viettel successfully conducted their OS Command Injection attack against the WD My Cloud Pro Series PR4100 in the NAS category. Team Viettel successfully conducted their OS Command Injection attack against the WD My Cloud Pro Series PR4100 in the NAS category.

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NetSpi Executives

JANUARY 30, 2024

As your company’s external attack surface expands and threat actors remain relentless, Attack Surface Management (ASM) solutions can help level up your proactive security measures by enabling continuous pentesting. This is achieved via the attack surface operations team, who manually test and validate the exposures found.

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Pentester Academy

MARCH 29, 2023

Organizations are in search of qualified, certified professionals to join their Red Teams, and you can be one of them with help from INE’s new Junior Penetration Tester (eJPT) certification. Not only does it provide an opportunity for career growth, there’s also a chance for salary growth. Getting started is easy!

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 3, 2023

Penetration testing (pentesting) is one of the fundamental mechanisms in this area. Essentially, a pentest is a manual process that boils down to mimicking an attacker’s actions. By and large, there are two things that set pentesting aside from adjacent security activities. Established procedures.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 28, 2023

“New analysis from NCC Group’s Global Threat Intelligence team has revealed that ransomware attacks are soaring, with 436 victims in May. The 8BASE group claims to be composed of honest pentesters. “We We are honest and simple pentesters. and Brazil. ” reported NCC. ” continues the report.

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IT Security Guru

OCTOBER 17, 2023

I’m now a full-time Cyber Security Consultant/Penetration Tester/Ethical Hacker specialising in web application security testing and currently holding the Cyber Scheme Team Member certification. He was a pentester (still is), and his work fascinated me. How do you get into pentesting?” But I still wasn’t a full-time pentester.

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Hacker's King

JUNE 30, 2023

Eight hacker teams from different places like the US, Australia, Germany, etc. emerged from the April qualifiers and more than 350 teams registered for this competition to prove their ability and get a chance to be highlighted in the world. This competition is going to be held in Las Vegas during Defcon.

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NetSpi Executives

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Be sure to bookmark these sample reports to keep them on hand when you need to compare the quality of a report you receive — or connect with our team anytime for a gut check. Conduct a post-mortem after a penetration test to review the findings and discuss a remediation plan with your team.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 23, 2023

Organizations have two choices: perform penetration tests with their internal teams, or hire an external vendor and find ways to lower costs. Yet, outside teams bring new perspectives, different experience, and specialties that can uncover overlooked vulnerabilities. However, while valid for cash flow, the perspective is short sighted.

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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. While some organizations may continue to use previous pentest templates and procedures, remote workers change the attack surface and add a new wrinkle that needs to be addressed.

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SecureList

JANUARY 30, 2023

New team members to participate in cyberattacks and other illegal activities are recruited right where the business is done – on the dark web. The major dark web employers are hacker teams and APT groups looking for those capable of developing and spreading malware code, building and maintaining IT infrastructure, and so on.

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NopSec

AUGUST 9, 2022

Once you’ve started a vulnerability scanning system , you may want to take the next step in identifying vulnerabilities: penetration testing, commonly referred to as pentesting. Pentesting is a long-established method of independently verifying an organization’s ability to detect and defend against attacks.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

A firewall audit is a thorough procedure that requires your IT and security teams to look closely at your firewall documentation and change management processes. Audits raise questions about firewall functionality, as well as force teams to get granular about who’s in charge of firewall rules.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

The highest bounties were paid out for zero-day exploits for Sonos One smart speaker, two teams earned $60,000 each for code execution issues. Congratulation to the Synacktiv team that won the contest and earned $197,000 for their zero-days and 20 Master of Pwn points. Here are the final Master of Pwn standings. n Hoàng Th?ch

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

On Day 2, the Flashback team successfully chained three bugs to get code execution through the WAN interface on the TP-Link AC1750 Smart WiFi router. The Syacktiv team successfully hacked the TP-Link AC1750 Smart WiFi router targeting the LAN interface with an exploit triggering three unique bugs to get code execution.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 30, 2023

So having such an index provides a valuable resource for security teams to see the range of OSS projects available for their daily work, and the list also offers a nice overview of the current security landscape. .” OSS projects are essential in the InfoSec world, but it’s not always easy to find a good and up-to-date list.

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