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  • This guide goes through a full pentest report and potentially what should be in each section.

    The Ethical Hacker Network RSS News Feed 2010

  • A well-stocked pentest kit includes many tools - some simple, some sophisticated; some free, some not.

    EarthWeb IT Management News & Views 2010

  • Recently the web has been abuzz with pentest training options.

    The Ethical Hacker Network RSS News Feed 2010

  • Originally Posted by buckem also you may way to run backtrack off a remote system on your network and pentest your system for security holes (I do this with my laptop to secure my desktop).

    LinuxQuestions.org bbalban 2010

  • At the end of the day, scanners are just the start of a successful pentest so I don't think we should stress much about them.

    The Web Security Mailing List (WASC) Tasos Laskos tasos.laskos@xxxxxxxxx 2010

  • Ever have to pentest a CMS and need to puzzle out what plugins and themes it has?

    CIRT.net sullo 2010

  • Both scanners are covered adequately and include the types of scans you would use on an internal pentest.

    The Ethical Hacker Network RSS News Feed 2010

  • Are you running rkhunter and chkrootkit?, if not install them both and run them both, also you may way to run backtrack off a remote system on your network and pentest your system for security holes (I do this with my laptop to secure my desktop).

    LinuxQuestions.org bbalban 2010

  • Brooke Crothers is a former editor at large at CNET News. com, and has been an editor for the Asian weekly version of the pentest January 25, 2009 2: 06 PM PST

    Medlogs - Recent stories 2009

  • He describes the NDIS6 command line interfaces and how to use them in a pentest.

    Offensive Computing - Community Malicious code research and analysis 2009

  • “For me, this is like the size of a small-to-medium pentest,” P4x says, using the abbreviation for a “penetration test,” the sort of whitehat hacking he's carried out in the past to reveal vulnerabilities in a client's network.

    North Korea Hacked Him. So He Took Down Its Internet Condé Nast 2022

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  • short for 'penetration test' - a test of a computer security system.

    July 26, 2015