SecPoint Penetrator Review Vulnerability assessment should be a key part to your information security program. It’s important to keep up to date with the ever-changing attack surface your network presents and automated scanning can help you keep on top of it. This week I’ve been looking at the Penetrator vulnerability assessment appliance from Secpoint (http://www.secpoint.com/penetrator.html) [...]

My first impression about this book was that it was loaded with information! The book is well organized and systematically walks you through the art/science of penetration testing. The language used is easy to understand and if you look at each chapter, the book is organized in a certain fashion. Each chapter starts with an [...]

Social Engineering is not a technical book, at least not in the traditional sense. You will not see extensive discussion about ports, firewalls or encryption. If you were hoping for any of those topics, then you are in for a disappointment. This book is about human hacking, again not in the traditional sense. At the [...]

Cybershock: Surviving Hackers, Phreakers, Identity Thieves, Internet Terrorists and Weapons of Mass Disruption by Winn Schwartau Review by Larry Marks I was first introduced to Winn Schwartau in 2011 while attending a webinar, Cyberwar 4G a/k/a The Coming Smart Phone Wars, sponsored by ISC2. He identified the top 10 mobile security risks and discussed methods [...]