Tag: penetration-testing
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LinuxFest Northwest: GNU/Linux Loves All
Author/Presenter: Timmy Barnett (GNU Philosopher) Our sincere appreciation to LinuxFest Northwest (Now Celebrating Their Organizational 25th Anniversary Of Community Excellence), and the Presenters/Authors for publishing their superb LinuxFest Northwest 2025 video content. Originating from the conference’s events located at the Bellingham Technical College in Bellingham, Washington; and via the organizations YouTube channel. Thanks and a…
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How Today’s Pentest Models Compare and Why Continuous Wins
Tags: penetration-testingLegacy pentests give you a snapshot. Attackers see a live stream. Sprocket’s Continuous Penetration Testing (CPT) mimics real-world attackers”, daily, not annually”, so you can fix what matters, faster. Learn why CPT is the future. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/how-todays-pentest-models-compare-and-why-continuous-wins/
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Reconmap: Open-source vulnerability assessment, pentesting management platform
Reconmap is an open source tool for vulnerability assessments and penetration testing. It helps security teams plan, carry out, and report on security tests from start to … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/06/24/reconmap-open-source-vulnerability-assessment-pentesting-management-platform/
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LinuxFest Northwest: Applying The Hybrid Threat Modeling Method
Author/Presenter: Chris Beckman (Principal Security Engineer At Taxbit) Our sincere appreciation to LinuxFest Northwest (Now Celebrating Their Organizational 25th Anniversary Of Community Excellence), and the Presenters/Authors for publishing their superb LinuxFest Northwest 2025 video content. Originating from the conference’s events located at the Bellingham Technical College in Bellingham, Washington; and via the organizations YouTube channel.…
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LinuxFest Northwest: Barbie’s Journey A CI/CD Tale Of Transformation
Authors/Presenters: Autumn Nash (Product Manager At Microsoft, Specializing In Linux Security) Kerri-Leigh Grady (Solutions Architect At AWS) Our sincere appreciation to LinuxFest Northwest (Now Celebrating Their Organizational 25th Anniversary Of Community Excellence), and the Presenters/Authors for publishing their superb LinuxFest Northwest 2025 video content. Originating from the conference’s events located at the Bellingham Technical College…
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Missbrauch des Pentesting Toosl TeamFiltration – Hacker übernehmen Entra-ID-Konten
First seen on security-insider.de Jump to article: www.security-insider.de/cyberkriminelle-missbrauch-teamfiltration-microsoft-cloud-konten-kompromittiert-a-aba760576d404081ae621b6c317b0ff6/
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LinuxFest Northwest: Project Caua: Start Your Own Business, Be Your Own Boss
Author/Presenter: Jon “maddog” Hall, (Board Chair Emeritus: Linux Professional Institute, Founder: Project Cauã, Co-Founder: Caninos Loucos, Technical Advisor: QSentinel, Executive Director: Linux® International®) Our sincere appreciation to LinuxFest Northwest (Now Celebrating Their Organizational 25th Anniversary Of Community Excellence), and the Presenters/Authors for publishing their superb LinuxFest Northwest 2025 video content. Originating from the conference’s events…
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Mattermost Vulnerabilities Let Attackers Execute Remote Code Via Path Traversal
Mattermost, a widely-used open-source collaboration platform, has recently disclosed critical vulnerabilities in its software that could allow attackers to execute remote code through path traversal exploits. As detailed on the official Mattermost Security Updates page, these flaws have been identified through rigorous security reviews and penetration testing conducted by global security research communities, deploying organizations,…
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LinuxFest Northwest: The First Black Software Engineer in America: Technology and Race
Author/Presenter: Clyde Ford (Author And Software Consultant) Our sincere appreciation to LinuxFest Northwest (Now Celebrating Their Organizational 25th Anniversary Of Community Excellence), and the Presenters/Authors for publishing their superb LinuxFest Northwest 2025 video content. Originating from the conference’s events located at the Bellingham Technical College in Bellingham, Washington; and via the organizations YouTube channel. Thanks…
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LinuxFest Northwest: The Geology of Open Source
Author/Presenter: Hazel Weakly (Nivenly Foundation; Director, Haskell Foundation; Infrastructure Witch of Hachyderm) Our sincere appreciation to LinuxFest Northwest (Now Celebrating Their Organizational 25th Anniversary Of Community Excellence), and the Presenters/Authors for publishing their superb LinuxFest Northwest 2025 video content. Originating from the conference’s events located at the Bellingham Technical College in Bellingham, Washington; and via…
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LinuxFest Northwest: The Intersectionality Of Human Psychology, Security And The Era Of AI And Misinfo
Author/Presenter: Autumn Nash (Product Manager At Microsoft, Specializing In Linux Security Our sincere appreciation to LinuxFest Northwest (Now Celebrating Their Organizational 25th Anniversary Of Community Excellence), and the Presenters/Authors for publishing their superb LinuxFest Northwest 2025 video content. Originating from the conference’s events located at the Bellingham Technical College in Bellingham, Washington; and via the…
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How Agentic AI Can Secure Network Infrastructure?
We’ve officially entered the era of agentic AI”, where systems do more than just follow instructions. These AI agents can now act autonomously, make decisions, execute tasks, and learn continuously from their interactions within digital environments. In the context of network infrastructure and penetration testing, agentic AI marks a major leap forward. Instead of waiting…
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LinuxFest Northwest: How To Linuxfest
Author/Presenter: Angela Fischer (Jupiter Broadcasting Co-Owner) Our sincere appreciation to LinuxFest Northwest (Now Celebrating Their Organizational 25th Anniversary Of Community Excellence), and the Presenters/Authors for publishing their superb LinuxFest Northwest 2025 video content. Originating from the conference’s events located at the Bellingham Technical College in Bellingham, Washington; and via the organizations YouTube channel. Thanks and…
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LinuxFest Northwest: Running WASM Workloads On k8s: The Future Of Cloud-Native Apps
Author/Presenter: Christopher Valerio (Senior Software Engineer, Veritas Automata) Our sincere appreciation to LinuxFest Northwest (Now Celebrating Their Organizational 25th Anniversary Of Community Excellence), and the Presenters/Authors for publishing their superb LinuxFest Northwest 2025 video content. Originating from the conference’s events located at the Bellingham Technical College in Bellingham, Washington; and via the organizations YouTube channel.…
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The highest-paying jobs in cybersecurity today
Tags: access, ai, application-security, cisco, cloud, compliance, control, corporate, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, firewall, governance, grc, hacker, identity, incident response, infrastructure, intelligence, jobs, network, penetration-testing, privacy, risk, risk-assessment, risk-management, skills, soc, threat, tool, training, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementSee “Top 12 cloud security certifications”See “CISSP certification: Requirements, training, exam, and cost”See “CCSP certification: Exam, cost, requirements, training, salary” Security engineer: After security architects, security engineers receive the second-highest annual cash compensation ($191,000), with a base salary of $168,000. Nearly a third (31%) of security engineers surveyed also received annual equity grants.Like their architect…
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LinuxFest Northwest: Challenges of Managing Community Meetup Post-Pandemic
Author/Presenter: Mariatta Wijaya (Python Core Developer) Our sincere appreciation to LinuxFest Northwest (Now Celebrating Their Organizational 25th Anniversary Of Community Excellence), and the Presenters/Authors for publishing their superb LinuxFest Northwest 2025 video content. Originating from the conference’s events located at the Bellingham Technical College in Bellingham, Washington; and via the organizations YouTube channel. Thanks and…
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LinuxFest Northwest: Guarding Your Digital Treasure A Quest for Secure Credential Management
Author/Presenter: Shelby Palmersheim CEH & CISSP (Technical Marketing Manager) Our sincere appreciation to LinuxFest Northwest (Now Celebrating Their Organizational 25th Anniversary Of Community Excellence), and the Presenters/Authors for publishing their superb LinuxFest Northwest 2025 video content. Originating from the conference’s events located at the Bellingham Technical College in Bellingham, Washington; and via the organizations YouTube…
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LinuxFest Northwest: Code-By-Mail: A Rough And Tumble Guide To Submitting To Mailing Lists
Authors/Presenters: Sen Hastings (Software Dev And SBC Enthusiast) Our sincere appreciation to LinuxFest Northwest (Now Celebrating Their Organizational 25th Anniversary Of Community Excellence), and the Presenters/Authors for publishing their superb LinuxFest Northwest 2025 video content. Originating from the conference’s events located at the Bellingham Technical College in Bellingham, Washington; and via the organizations YouTube channel.…
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LinuxFest Northwest: Beyond ARIA Labels What A Blind Film Enthusiast Can Teach Us About Open Source
Authors/Presenters: José Ibañez (CEO at Blind Penguin), Raissa Ibañez (Manager At Blind Penguin) Our sincere appreciation to LinuxFest Northwest (Now Celebrating Their Organizational 25th Anniversary Of Community Excellence), and the Presenters/Authors for publishing their superb LinuxFest Northwest 2025 video content. Originating from the conference’s events located at the Bellingham Technical College in Bellingham, Washington; and…
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LinuxFest Northwest: Clonezilla Live On RISC-V Crafting Open Source Live Systems For Open Hardware
Authors/Presenters: Steven Shiau (Clonezilla Project Leader); Yu-Chin Tsai (Clonezilla NCHC Partclone); Chen-Kai Sun (Clonezilla Project / Engineer In NCHC) Our sincere appreciation to LinuxFest Northwest (Now Celebrating Their Organizational 25th Anniversary Of Community Excellence), and the Presenters/Authors for publishing their superb LinuxFest Northwest 2025 video content. Originating from the conference’s events located at the Bellingham…
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LinuxFest Northwest: See How Far COSMIC Has Come This Year
Author/Presenter: Carl Richell (CEO and Founder, System76, Inc.) Our sincere appreciation to LinuxFest Northwest (Now Celebrating Their Organizational 25th Anniversary Of Community Excellence), and the Presenters/Authors for publishing their superb LinuxFest Northwest 2025 video content. Originating from the conference’s events located at the Bellingham Technical College in Bellingham, Washington; and via the organizations YouTube channel.…
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Kali Linux 2025.2 delivers Bloodhound CE, CARsenal, 13 new tools
OffSec has released Kali Linux 2025.2, the most up-to-date version of the widely used penetration testing and digital forensics platform. KDE Plasma 6.3 in Kali Linux 2025.2 … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/06/14/kali-linux-2025-2-released-bloodhound-ce-carsenal/
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Unusual toolset used in recent Fog Ransomware attack
Fog ransomware operators used in a May 2025 attack unusual pentesting and monitoring tools, Symantec researchers warn. In May 2025, attackers hit an Asian financial firm with Fog ransomware, using rare tools like Syteca monitoring software and pentesting tools GC2, Adaptix, and Stowaway. Symantec researchers pointed out that the use of these tools is unusual…
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LinuxFest Northwest: Chaos Testing Of A Postgres Cluster On Kubernetes
Author/Presenter: Nikolay Sivko (Co-Founder And CEO At Coroot) Our sincere appreciation to LinuxFest Northwest (Now Celebrating Their Organizational 25th Anniversary Of Community Excellence), and the Presenters/Authors for publishing their superb LinuxFest Northwest 2025 video content. Originating from the conference’s events located at the Bellingham Technical College in Bellingham, Washington; and via the organizations YouTube channel.…
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TeamFiltration pentesting tool harnessed in global Microsoft Entra ID attack campaign
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/brief/teamfiltration-pentesting-tool-harnessed-in-global-microsoft-entra-id-attack-campaign
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LinuxFest Northwest: Easy Modular Sensors And Automation
Author/Presenter: Sam Groveman (Research Associate) Our sincere appreciation to LinuxFest Northwest (Now Celebrating Their Organizational 25th Anniversary Of Community Excellence), and the Presenters/Authors for publishing their superb LinuxFest Northwest 2025 video content. Originating from the conference’s events located at the Bellingham Technical College in Bellingham, Washington; and via the organizations YouTube channel. Thanks and a…
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Threat Actor Abuses TeamFiltration for Entra ID Account Takeovers
Proofpoint researchers discovered a large-scale campaign using the open source penetration-testing framework that has targeted more than 80,000 Microsoft accounts. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cloud-security/threat-actor-teamfiltration-entra-id-attacks
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Fog ransomware gang abuses employee monitoring tool in unusual multi-stage attack
Tags: attack, china, cloud, control, corporate, encryption, espionage, exploit, google, group, intelligence, microsoft, monitoring, network, open-source, penetration-testing, ransomware, service, threat, toolOpen-source pen testers for executing commands: Another peculiarity observed in the attack was the use of open-source penetration testing tools, like GC2 and Adaptix C2, rarely seen with ransomware attacks.Google Command and Control (GC2) is an open-source post-exploitation tool that allows attackers to control compromised systems using legitimate cloud services like Google Sheets and Google…
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Fog Ransomware Uses Pentesting Tools to Steal Data and Launch Attacks
Tags: attack, breach, cyber, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, finance, hacker, monitoring, network, open-source, penetration-testing, ransomware, software, tactics, toolFog ransomware incidents in recent years have exposed a dangerous new trend in cybercrime: hackers are using open-source penetration testing tools and genuine staff monitoring software to breach networks, steal confidential data, and initiate ransomware attacks. This unprecedented blend of tactics has targeted major financial institutions, raising alarms among cybersecurity professionals. Unprecedented Toolset in a…