While traditional penetration testing (pen testing) has long been the go-to method for identifying security gaps in a organization’s network and web application, a new approach has emerged: ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom signs SB 243, the first US law setting child-safety rules for AI chatbots, from crisis redirects to transparency requirements. Hollywood pushes back against OpenAI’s Sora 2 as ...

I’m writing to tell you about our new Watcher tool for web-app security auditing and testing. Watcher is a plug-in for Eric Lawrence’s Fiddler proxy aimed at helping developers and testers find ...

A DAST tool is an application security (AppSec) solution that in essence uses similar techniques that a cybercriminal would use to find potential weaknesses in web applications, while they are in use.

Web applications often handle vast amounts of data, from personal user details to sensitive corporate information. As these applications grow in complexity and importance, they also become primary ...

When we think about how to protect our information systems against attack, the typical things that come to mind are firewalls, encryption and applying the latest software patches. These technical ...

I have already written about the potential benefits and pitfalls of bug bounties, but some numbers from the above-mentioned reports appeared interesting to me — highlighting previously unobvious ...

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Penetration testing, or 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 ...