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.
ESP32 Marauder (tindie.com)
The Marauder is a portable penetration testing tool created for WiFi and Bluetooth analysis.
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.
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.
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.