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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 ...

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

Definition: Penetration testing is a process in which a security professional simulates an attack on a network or computer system to evaluate its security—with the permission of that system’s owners.

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 ...

Penetration Testing is among the most intimate cybersecurity audits that an organization can undertake. Defined by Digital Forensics as "an authorized simulated cyberattack on a computer system, ...

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 ...

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 ...