penetration testing

ElcomSoft updated its Phone Password Breaker and Wireless Security Auditor with OpenCL support, adding support for the latest AMD Radeon Graphics and ensuring universal …

A group of researchers from the University of Michigan has recently attacked and managed to compromise the Washington, DC Digital Vote by Mail Internet voting system, proving …

Rapid7 announced that the new version of Metasploit 4.2 allows users to fully test whether IPv6 addresses on their network are vulnerable to cyber attacks. This is …

Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner 8 (WVS) echoes years of counter-hacking experience through its new ability to lock hackers out by integrating scan results into …

Tenable Network Security announced Nessus 5.0, a vulnerability and configuration assessment solution for enterprises and security professionals. Nessus 5.0 delivers introduces …

Codenomicon released the Fuzz-o-Matic cloud-based software security Testing-as-a-Service (TaaS) platform for enterprise software and applications running on Windows, Linux, …

Arachni is an open source Web application security scanner framework, a modular framework that allows fast, accurate and flexible vulnerability assessment. In order to …

In the 12+ years of doing penetration tests against various critical environments, we’ve seen numerous online banking servers and found all sorts of vulnerabilities in …

If you're considering a career in penetration testing, you probably already know that BackTrack is the Linux distribution favored by most pentesters due to it being preloaded …

For individuals who make a living developing and maintaining software systems, finding bugs in their own code is almost a daily ritual. Working on software developing projects …

NT OBJECTives announced NTO SQL Invader, a free tool which provides pen testers and developers the ability to quickly and easily exploit and demonstrate SQL Injection …

At SANS London 2011, Europe’s largest IT security training event, NetWars will be launched for the first time in the UK. NetWars participants compete in a mock …