This is the first article in a six-part tutorial for consultants and value-added resellers (VARs) about penetration testing. Over the course of the six articles we look at several elements of ...

Wireless technology is difficult to secure, since no one can physically see or sense the data being transmitted over the air. The history of wired equivalent privacy (WEP) cracking is interesting, and ...

Many IT security consulting companies provided manual penetration tests over the past few decades. This service traditionally consisted of a group of well-trained security professionals armed with ...

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 ...

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