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The Jamaican government has hired a group of ethical hackers to perform penetration testing on the government’s computer systems.
"It's quite legitimate to get somebody and say go and test what I have put together (website) and see where the loopholes are so I can build a defence against it," Julian... |
11 June 2013
09:04 GMT |
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Offensive Security, the developer behind the Backtrack and Kali Linux operating systems, has announced on April 26 that a new version of the the Kali Linux distribution for forensic and penetration testing tasks has been released. Kali Linux 1.0.3 brings a feature that should have been implemented since the first r... |
27 April 2013
06:03 GMT |
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Computer security experts of the US Navy have performed some penetration tests on the networks of USS Freedom, the Navy’s first littoral combat ship, to see just how vulnerable the warship’s systems are to cyberattacks.
According to an unnamed Navy official cited by Reuters, some vulnerabilities have bee... |
24 April 2013
05:55 GMT |
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Offensive Security has launched Kali Linux, advertised as being a more mature and more secure enterprise-ready version of BackTrack Linux, the popular distribution designed for forensics and penetration testing.
To make the new toolkit even more efficient, Rapid 7 has announced that it would officially provide Metas... |
13 March 2013
10:18 GMT |
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Cybersecurity solutions provider Pwnie Express has unveiled the Pwn Pad, an Android tablet based on Google Nexus 7 that’s designed to allow penetration testers to easily analyze both wireless and wired networks.
Pwnie Express representatives have told Wired that they’ve added the TP-Link wireless adapter... |
25 February 2013
07:55 GMT |
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A South Dakota-based penetration testing company called Black Hills Information Security has released Recon-ng, a Metasploit-like open source framework that automates web-based reconnaissance. Written in Python, Recon-ng comes with a number of modules, including auxiliary modules which enhance the information that&r... |
1 February 2013
04:32 GMT |
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A long time ago, when I first heard of the term hacker, it was described as an individual with highly advanced programming skills who was capable of accessing restricted computer systems. These days, automated tools have become so easy to use that almost anyone can become a hacker. Most hackers don’t even have... |
15 October 2012
08:01 GMT |
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Security expert Kevin Bong, who currently works as an information assurance consultant for SynerComm, has developed what he calls a penetration testing “drop box” named MiniPwner, which can be used by professionals to pinpoint vulnerabilities in networks.
“Once plugged into a target network, the Mi... |
18 April 2012
09:52 GMT |
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Hackers around the world, the interview series in which we try to dig deep into the minds of hackers worldwide, continues. This time we move on to the northern part of Europe, to Finland to be more precise, where we meet Janne Ahlberg, a product security professional with a passion for penetration testing. During th... |
17 April 2012
13:51 GMT |
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Offensive Security, leaders in Online information security training, proudly announced a few days ago, on November 19th, the immediate availability for download of a new BackTrack 4 release, their extremely popular security oriented operating system.Dubbed Nemesis, the new release of BackTrack 4 is now pow... |
23 November 2010
17:46 GMT |
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NSS Labs, a company specializing in anti-malware testing, plans to expand its business by launching an online marketplace for exploits next month.The platform will be called Exploit Hub and will allow security researchers to sell exploit code for known vulnerabilities to penetration testers and other security compani... |
10 September 2010
04:58 GMT |
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The vulnerability management company Rapid7 has acquired the rights to the Metasploit Framework code, as well as its trademarks and website. The project's founder, HD Moore, will join Rapid7 as its new Chief Security Officer and the platform will retain its open-source licensing. The Metasploit Framework is a h... |
22 October 2009
09:51 GMT |
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