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 ...

Just recently published by no starch press, Penetration Testing: A Hands-On Introduction to Hacking can give you a solid — practical, useful and insightful — understanding of how hackers work and how ...

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 ...