penetration testing

CORE Security released the latest version of CORE Impact Professional vulnerability assessment and penetration testing software, that allows organizations to proactively test …

BackTrack is a Linux-based penetration testing arsenal that aids security professionals in the ability to perform assessments in a purely native environment dedicated to …

Nearly a year ago, Facebook introduced its bug bounty program, inviting security researchers to poke around the site, discover vulnerabilities that could compromise the …

In the same way that a hardware keylogger may remain undetected by office workers, Power Pwn – a newly created piece of hardware resembling a power strip or surge …

This video by Paul Asadoorian shows you how to enable and use the Nessus plugins which identify mobile devices and vulnerabilities from your MDM (Mobile Device Management) servers.

Rapid7 introduced the means to increase vulnerability management efficiency by leveraging intelligence from its penetration testing solution, Metasploit Pro, to validate …

A simple but serious MySQL and MariaDB authentication bypass flaw has been revealed by MariaDB security coordinator Sergei Golubchik, and exploits targeting it have already …

Codenomicon helped identify and a critical flaw in widely-used encryption software. A flaw in the OpenSSL handling of CBC mode ciphersuites in TLS 1.1, 1.2 and DTLS can be …

The CERT Basic Fuzzing Framework (BFF) is a software testing tool that finds defects in applications that run on the Linux and Mac OS X platforms. BFF performs mutational …

Digital Assurance announced the launch of its new Digital Assurance Vulnerability Engine (DAVE). Designed to increase the flexibility and efficiency of security testing while …

The need for more effective information security practices is increasingly evident with each security breach reported in the media. When adopting new technologies like cloud …

Tenable release of Nessus 5.0.1, a vulnerability and configuration assessment solution for enterprises and security professionals. This release improves the stability on all …