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Let’s examine how rigorous retesting of products during a pentest engagement can make products more secure and what goes into performing efficient retesting. Introduction: Why Retesting? First of all, let’s clarify what retesting is. Basically, it’s the very last phase …

Researchers uncovered that State-Sponsors APT hackers called “Billbug” attacked and compromise the digital certificate authority in multiple Asian countries along with other government and defense agencies. An ongoing campaign attributed to the infamous APT group Billbug, also known as Lotus …

Researchers uncovered an infamous and widely distributed malware Emotet, now targeting Windows users by employing a malicious Excel File after six months after its last activity. Emotet is considered a kind of malware family among the malware research community due to …

Experts at Avast, who built on the discoveries of ESET, the first to notice and report on the threat group known as “Worok”, conceals malware within PNG images to silently infect victims’ computers with information-stealing malware. Reports say it targets …

A Web Application Firewall (WAF) is a tool that filters the incoming and outgoing traffic at the application layer. Based on the pre-set rules by a business and WAF provider, it either blocks the traffic it deems malicious or allows …

David Schütz, a security researcher, has identified a critical bug in the Google Pixel phones that allow hackers to bypass the passcode and pattern lock with the consent of having physical access to the vulnerable device. A critical Lock screen …

Jonathan Toebbe, aged 43, an employee of the Department of the Navy who served as a nuclear engineer was arrested after trying to sell military secrets, related to the design of U.S. nuclear warships, to a foreign government.  Diana Toebbe, …