Secure socket layer (SSL) is a transport layer cryptographic security technique implemented by most websites today. All the biggies, including Facebook, Gmail, Paypal, and other similar sites, use ...

Seventy-two percent of organizations said external penetration testing helped prevent a breach, according to a recent survey.

BackTrack 5, code named “Revolution”, the much awaited penetration testing framework, was released in May 2011. It is a major development over BackTrack4 R2. BackTrack 5 is said to be built from ...

Penetration Testing is among the most intimate cybersecurity audits that an organization can undertake. Defined by Digital Forensics as "an authorized simulated cyberattack on a computer system, ...

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Definition: Penetration testing is a process in which a security professional simulates an attack on a network or computer system to evaluate its security—with the permission of that system’s owners.

Penetration testing is a highly scientific, metrics-driven approach to IT security that has been in practice since almost the dawn of the modern computing era when programmers first began conducting ...