SCHAUMBURG, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Physical penetration testing is often overlooked when it comes to security, despite a 28 percent increase in physical security incidents in both 2021 and 2022.

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Social engineering is an attacker's most effective weapon -- Kevin Mitnick's newly released memoirs are a testament to that fact. In a physical penetration test, the attacker's goal is to get inside ...

When evaluating cybersecurity and data protection risk for our clients, the two most fundamental questions that need to be answered are: How vulnerable is our organization to active cyber threats that ...

An on premise hacker can cripple even the best cybersecurity defenses. After slipping past security, picking a backdoor lock and gaining access to a company’s inner sanctum, a skilled hacker can cause ...

Why are you performing penetration tests? Whether you’re using an internal team, outside experts or a combination of the two, are you simply satisfying regulatory or audit requirements, or do you ...

Social engineering techniques are often crucial to executing penetration tests. But which methods cross the ethical line - or even venture into the dangerous territory of illegal? Social engineering ...

One of AT&T's websites secretly redirected penetration tests to the FBI's Tips portal, putting security researchers participating in the company's bug bounty program at risk of breaking the law, ZDNet ...

The advent of the Internet of Things brings with it a host of benefits to the public sector: greater efficiency in operations, expanded machine-to-machine communications, instantaneous access to new ...

Two pen testers arrested and jailed for breaking into Iowa courthouse during a physical pen testing exercise. Next week, Tara Seals will host a Threatpost webinar, “AI and Cybersecurity: Tools, ...