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• Penetration testers need to advance their skills

  09.10.2012

  Ahead of SANS London 2012, Europe’s largest IT security training event, a top security expert and trainer is warning that a big challenge and knowledge gap for penetration testers is the growth of operating systems that include new anti-exploitation defences, “Although developers and operators still make coding and configuration mistakes, discovering or adapting an exploit to handle modern-day defences is more difficult than ever,” comments Stephen Sims, the author of SANS' only 700-level course, SEC710: Advanced Exploit Development.

• CORE Security updates its vulnerability assessment software

  18.09.2012

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

• BackTrack 5 R3 released

  14.08.2012

  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 hacking.

• Facebook invites white hats to attack its corporate network

  27.07.2012

  Nearly a year ago, Facebook introduced its bug bounty program, inviting security researchers to poke around the site, discover vulnerabilities that could compromise the integrity or privacy of Facebook user data, and then responsibly disclose them to the company.

• Penetration testing tool masquerades as surge protector

  23.07.2012

  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 protector that is actually a network-snooping device - might pass unnoticed until it's too late.

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