Hacker News with Generative AI: Penetration Testing

Metasploit – Penetration Testing Framework (metasploit.com)
A collaboration between the open source community and Rapid7, Metasploit helps security teams do more than just verify vulnerabilities, manage security assessments, and improve security awareness; it empowers and arms defenders to always stay one step (or two) ahead of the game.
Cybersecurity, Penetration Testing, Open Source, Security Tools
13 points by modinfo 37 days ago | 2 comments
ESP32 Marauder (tindie.com)
The Marauder is a portable penetration testing tool created for WiFi and Bluetooth analysis.
Penetration Testing, WiFi, Bluetooth, Security
4 points by de_aztec 59 days ago | 0 comments
Null Byte on Steroids (medium.com)
Hello, I’m 0xold, a penetration tester who began exploring bug bounty hunting about 8 months ago. Today, I’ll be sharing a couple of vulnerabilities I discovered leveraging null byte injection — exploits that wouldn’t have been possible without this technique. For confidentiality, I’ll refer to all the websites involved as company.com, as I’m not permitted to disclose the actual company names.
Cybersecurity, Penetration Testing
28 points by grajaganDev 69 days ago | 4 comments
Story of a Pentester Recruitment (silentsignal.eu)
In 2015, we published a blog post about the recruitment challenges we devised for candidates who’d like to join our pentester team. The post got much attention, with supportive comments and criticism as well. Learning from this experience, we created a completely new challenge that we’re retiring today, and we’d once again share our experiences (and the solutions!) we gained from this little game.
Cybersecurity, Penetration Testing, Recruitment, Security
6 points by ramimac 75 days ago | 0 comments
Review of Mullvad VPN (x41-dsec.de)
X41 performed a white box penetration test with source code access against the Mullvad VPN Application. The efforts included formulating a light threat model.
Security, VPN, Penetration Testing
476 points by ylk 112 days ago | 203 comments