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TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6503) announced today that it has developed the world's first penetration-test support tool, CATSploit, which automatically generates ...

Matt Morris is currently the Global Managing Director for 1898 & Co., where he leads a diverse team of ICS cybersecurity practitioners. Penetration testing is a vital part of a critical infrastructure ...

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

Penetration testing, often referred to as “pen testing,” is a simulated cyber attack against an organization’s IT infrastructure to identify vulnerabilities that could be exploited by attackers. This ...

Web applications are the top vectors attackers use to pull off breaches. According to Verizon's "Data Breach Investigations Report" (PDF), Web applications were the way in for roughly 70% of all ...

Search engines are a treasure trove of valuable sensitive information, which hackers can use for their cyber-attacks. Good news: so can penetration testers. Penetration testing engineers employ Google ...

Social engineering techniques are often crucial to executing penetration tests. But which methods cross the ethical line - or even venture into the dangerous territory of illegal? Social engineering ...

Cybersecurity is a rapidly growing and evolving field with a wide range of subfields and specializations. One of these is penetration testing, a discipline within what's known as "red teaming," which ...