Tag: penetration-testing
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Will Enterprise Prospects Accept a Pentest Report From a Boutique Firm?
Tags: penetration-testingA pentest report from a boutique firm gets accepted or rejected based on what is actually in the report, not the size of the company that produced it. The honest answer to whether it will pass review has nothing to do with employee headcount. The post Will Enterprise Prospects Accept a Pentest Report From a…
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Will Enterprise Prospects Accept a Pentest Report From a Boutique Firm?
Tags: penetration-testingA pentest report from a boutique firm gets accepted or rejected based on what is actually in the report, not the size of the company that produced it. The honest answer to whether it will pass review has nothing to do with employee headcount. The post Will Enterprise Prospects Accept a Pentest Report From a…
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What is Penetration Testing?
Penetration testing, commonly known as “pen testing,” is an authorised attack where trusted cyber security experts evaluate physical and digital systems, networks, or applications. It … Read more First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: https://securityboulevard.com/2026/08/what-is-penetration-testing-2/
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Intruder’s Chris Wallis on AI pentesting and the future of cybersecurity
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/resource/intruders-chris-wallis-on-ai-pentesting-and-the-future-of-cybersecurity
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Ido Geffen on why Novee owns the full AI pentesting stack
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Top 10 Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing Companies 2026
In today’s interconnected digital world, no organization is truly safe from cyber threats. A single unpatched vulnerability can become an open door for a devastating cyberattack, leading to data breaches, financial losses, and irreparable damage to a brand’s reputation. To stay ahead of sophisticated attackers, businesses must be proactive, not reactive. This is where vulnerability…
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Novee Brings Continuous AI Pentesting to Mobile Applications
Novee has expanded its AI penetration testing platform to mobile applications, extending continuous testing across mobile, web, APIs, desktop software and AI-enabled applications. The company announced the update ahead of Black Hat USA 2026. Novee said users can upload a mobile application package and receive results within hours, alongside findings from their other application assets……
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Metasploit Opens Its Exploit Engine to LLMs via New MCP Integration
If there was any reason to patch your systems, this would be it: The release of Metasploit 6.5, which brings the penetration testing framework into the AI age. Now, script kiddies and sophisticated foreign operatives don’t even have to cut and paste their code to break into your systems. They can just ask Metasploit to..…
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Cobalt Launches Autonomous Pentest for Continuous Application Testing
Cobalt is launching Cobalt Autonomous Pentest, a service designed to bring continuous offensive security testing to an organization’s full application portfolio. The product debuts at Black Hat USA 2026 and is scheduled for general availability in August. The offering combines AI-driven testing with direction from Cobalt penetration testers. Its model-agnostic engine handles chain prediction, prioritization..…
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How to Implement Continuous Agentic Pentesting for the Web
Continuous agentic pentesting is the practice of using autonomous AI agents to attack, validate, and report on your web applications on an ongoing basis, every… First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/08/how-to-implement-continuous-agentic-pentesting-for-the-web/
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Snyk Brings Evo Continuous Offensive Security to General Availability at Black Hat
Snyk brought Evo Continuous Offensive Security to general availability at Black Hat USA 2026, adding an autonomous, AI-powered penetration testing capability that runs continuously rather than on a once- or twice-a-year schedule. The company said Evo COS is designed to find architectural flaws and business-logic vulnerabilities that traditional scanners can miss. It uses application context..…
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Penetration Testing Cost for Small SaaS Startups
Ask three vendors for a pentest quote and you will likely get three numbers that do not seem to be describing the same service. That is not a coincidence, it is the actual state of penetration testing cost for small SaaS startups right now, and it is worth breaking down honestly rather than papering over.…
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PortSwigger Adds AI Agent to Penetration Testing Portfolio
PortSwigger has made available a beta release of an artificial intelligence (AI) agent for its Burp Suite penetration testing tools. Katie Warren, product leader for Burp AI at PortSwigger, said Burp AT will make it simpler for cybersecurity teams to simulate attacks without necessarily requiring a lot of expertise. At the core of that capability..…
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AI pentesting tools are generating more findings than security teams can validate, new survey finds
New research from Pentest-Tools.com suggests that AI-assisted penetration testing tools are generating vulnerability findings faster than most security teams can verify them, creating a validation backlog that is offsetting the time AI was meant to save. The company surveyed 158 security practitioners in June 2026, including penetration testers, security engineers, AppSec and DevSecOps professionals, consultants,…
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YAML’d
H/T to Trey Blalock from Verification Labs :: Penetration Testing Specialists – Trey Blalock GCTI, GWAPT, GCFA, GPEN, GPCS, GCPN, CRISC, CISA, CISM, CISSP, SSCP, CDPSE. This comic is a meme template based on a “Fortune Teller” comic created by Jon Sullivan per that fount of knowledge, Google. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article:…
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Arsenal-NG: A Terminal Cheat-Sheet Launcher for Faster Penetration Testing
Overview Arsenal-NG is an interactive, terminal-based launcher that turns a sprawling collection of offensive-security tools into a single searchable command cheat-sheet. Instead of memorising flags First seen on hackingarticles.in Jump to article: www.hackingarticles.in/arsenal-ng-a-terminal-cheat-sheet-launcher-for-faster-penetration-testing/
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Security regression testing and abuse case testing for technical teams
Security regression testing and abuse case testing for technical teams Security testing is often treated as a point-in-time activity. A team runs a penetration test, fixes the findings, and moves on. That approach helps, but it does not stop the same weakness from returning in the next release, refactor, dependency update, or feature change. For……
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Top 8 Penetration Testing Tools to Enhance Your Security in 2026
Compare the best penetration testing tools for 2026, including pricing, key features, use cases, and top picks for modern security teams today. The post Top 8 Penetration Testing Tools to Enhance Your Security in 2026 appeared first on TechRepublic. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/best-penetration-testing-tools/
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Debian-basiertes Pentesting – Was ist Kali Linux?
First seen on security-insider.de Jump to article: www.security-insider.de/was-ist-kali-linux-a-19bc6ecebeee60cb707eba4a3e8acf7c/
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New CREST AI Standards to Deliver AI-Enabled Pentesting Accreditation
CREST’s new AI standards are optional add-on requirements for cybersecurity service providers wishing to demonstrate responsible AI usage First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/crest-ai-pentesting-accreditation/
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PortSwigger Introduces Burp AT Agentic AI for Automated Penetration Testing
PortSwigger has launched Burp AT, an agentic AI system that allows penetration testers to delegate web security investigation tasks while maintaining direct control over the testing scope, approvals, and final conclusions. The public beta is currently available for Burp Suite Professional users. Unlike standalone AI assistants that operate based on prompts with limited context, Burp…
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NodeBB Patches Eight AI-Found Flaws Exposing Admin Access and Private Chats
Eight security flaws in NodeBB went public on Wednesday, along with the code to exploit them. Aikido Security rates all eight as high severity and says its AI pentest agents found them in a six-hour review of the forum software’s source code.Every version before 4.14.0 is affected. NodeBB has fixed them all, and administrators should…
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Top 10 Best Physical Security Penetration Testing Firms 2026
In an era dominated by cyber threats, the importance of physical security penetration testing often gets overshadowed. However, a robust security posture requires a holistic approach that addresses vulnerabilities in both the digital and physical realms. A determined attacker can bypass sophisticated cyber defenses simply by walking through an unlocked door, exploiting weak physical controls,…
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The AI code vulnerabilities that grow with your app
Theori built 28 apps with AI coding agents and scanned each one through its pentesting platform. Five models did the building, split between Anthropic and OpenAI, across apps … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/07/23/report-ai-code-vulnerabilities/
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Threat Actor Turns Claude Opus Into Automated AI-Powered Penetration Testing Platform
A Russian-speaking threat actor known as “Trim” has reportedly transformed Anthropic’s Claude Opus into the central component of an automated, AI-powered penetration testing platform. This development highlights the rapid repurposing of advanced AI models for offensive security operations. According to research by Cato CTRL, Trim progressed from sharing jailbreak instructions on a Russian cybercrime forum…
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Terra Security expands agentic pentesting to internal networks
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Russian Hacker Turns Jailbroken Claude Into Pentest Platform
Russian-speaking actor Trim built a commercial offensive AI pentest tool on jailbroken Claude models First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/trim-jailbroken-claude-ai-pentest/
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95% of Security Teams Blindsided by Vulnerabilities Between Tests
The vast majority of enterprise security teams are being blindsided by vulnerabilities that scheduled testing never catches, according to new research from Synack, which describes itself as the provider of the first AI-powered continuous pentest for enterprises. The company’s new report, The State of Continuous Security Validation, surveyed enterprise security leaders and practitioners and found…
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PENTDEM AI Pentesting Daemon Uses 34 Security Tools to Automate WAF Bypass and Attack Chains
Tags: ai, attack, bug-bounty, cyber, firewall, LLM, open-source, penetration-testing, tool, vulnerability, wafPENTDEM is an open-source autonomous AI pentesting daemon that integrates 34 security tools with LLM-directed analysis to automate various tasks, including reconnaissance, vulnerability discovery, evidence validation, Web Application Firewall (WAF) fingerprinting, and multi-stage attack-path modeling. This Python-based project is designed for authorized security testing and bug-bounty workflows, offering both an autonomous agent mode and a…