Articles for improved cybersecurity
Offensive Security
What is Offensive Security? Discover Offensive Security and learn how Offensive Security can help strengthen your cybersecurity posture. Links to tools.
What is Social Hacking?
Social hacking is an attack on the human operating system, which tries to exploit the vulnerabilities in the human OS mostly related to authority, trust, or fear. To help better understand how social hacking works, let's take its most common form the phishing email (scam email) and see how it works.
What is Penetration Testing & Its Different Types
Manual Penetration Testing is essential for critical infrastructure. Scanning for vulnerabilities within ICS/SCADA networks without improper supervision can cause many systems to be overwhelmed and go offline. The potential consequences of disrupting critical systems is great.
Common cybersecurity issues that are easy to fix
Most companies know that critical vulnerabilities can be resolved simply by updating critical security patches. However, more often than not, many systems across multiple client sectors are found to be using obsolete operating systems and missing patches such as the MS17-010 critical security update.
Manual Penetration Testing – Manual Testing vs Automated Testing
Manual Penetration Testing is essential for critical infrastructure. Scanning for vulnerabilities within ICS/SCADA networks without improper supervision can cause many systems to be overwhelmed and go offline. The potential consequences of disrupting critical systems is great.
Our Nation Under Attack
The basic necessities of life; water, power and transportation are threatened by lack of resources to protect the systems that provide our nation’s basic needs. Nation State Threat Actors are aggressively ramping up efforts to take our country down by targeting Industrial control systems and outdated SCADA systems.
What You Need to Know About PCI Penetration Testing
A pen test, on the other hand, is a manual process. It actively seeks vulnerabilities in the system and exploits them as hackers would. Because it is a thorough process, it provides more comprehensive results. It is carried out less often than a vulnerability scan; usually once a year.
What is Penetration Testing (pen-testing)?
Penetration testing (pen-testing) is the art and science of identifying a company's security vulnerabilities and potential weaknesses using simulated real world hacker techniques. Learn more about penetration testing and how it's the perfect security measure to prevent cyber attacks.
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