For effective and successful penetration testing, information gathering is a prime aspect, and must be given utmost importance by security researchers, according to the Open Web Application Security ...

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 ...

Information security, sometimes abbreviated to infosec, is a set of practices intended to keep data secure from unauthorized access or alterations, both when it’s being stored and when it’s being ...

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The title of Chief Information Security Officer, or CISO, emerged during the 1990s as the first large-scale cyber attacks started to occur. Since then, it's become a near-ubiquitous role in any large ...

[Editor’s note: This article, originally published on July 3, 2019, has been updated with a directory of ISACs and ISAOs.] An Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC) is an industry-specific ...