That’s why penetration testing for an IoT device should encompass network, applications, firmware, encryption analysis, and hardware pen-testing. A single pen-test will not be sufficient,” said Sameer ...

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 ...

Social engineering is an attacker's most effective weapon -- Kevin Mitnick's newly released memoirs are a testament to that fact. In a physical penetration test, the attacker's goal is to get inside ...

As threats become much more pervasive and dynamic, organizations are adopting proactive security measures such as penetration testing to build out a comprehensive security strategy. Pen testing ...