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Fifteen of the best student cybersecurity teams from around the globe battled in the Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition global finals Jan. 11-14 at RIT. This year, teams pentested a mock airport. In one scenario (pictured), students hacked a baggage claim system. The world’s greatest collection of cybersecurity talent assembled at Rochester Institute of Technology Jan. … Read more

These cybersecurity credentials prove you’re a hacker with a heart of gold. Penetration testing is a lot like hacking. Both involve scanning devices, software and wireless networks for tiny security vulnerabilities. The only difference is the underlying intentions: penetration testers work for tech companies, reporting any cybersecurity issues so they can get patched. Hackers intend … Read more

You might be using an unsupported or outdated browser. To get the best possible experience please use the latest version of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, or Microsoft Edge to view this website. Often going by the title of “penetration tester,” ethical hackers work for a variety of businesses to test their network security measures against possible … Read more

MSPs are increasingly jumping into cybersecurity services. The rate is accelerating, and there’s plenty more to come. That’s according to Kaseya’s GM of cybersecurity Mike Puglia. A longtime icon in the MSP space, Puglia compares MSPs’ moves to cybersecurity to another big shift that happened a decade or more ago – the move from break/fix … Read more

Pentesting times have certainly changed. Years ago, when this speciality in offensive security was taking off, there was a large shift away from manual techniques to relying on a variety of tools. Most of these were open source. Then pentesting itself divided up into several niches for everything from network to web app to social … Read more