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Recently I came across to a situation where an institution has hired a third party vendor to develop its business applications. I came up with the following questions related to penetration testing ...

Possible Duplicate: What is the difference between a penetration test and a vulnerability assessment? When people talk about webapp security testing, do they usually mean vulnerability scanning ...

is Pentesting now just about running tools like Nessus and creating a report based on it ? and not actually exploiting anything on your own based on the Agreement ?

Possible Duplicate: What is the difference between a penetration test and a vulnerability assessment? I am tasked with hiring a consultant to do an analysis of our infrastructure security for a ...

Possible Duplicate: What is the difference between a penetration test and a vulnerability assessment? What is Penetration Testing? When a security professional throws around these words, what do ...

As part of our PCI-DSS compliance process we get scans done by a third party. Based on the form and wording of the output, it's pretty clear they're using Nessus for most of their heavy lifting. Same ...

I'm confused by some terminology - reverse engineering seems to me to be pretty similar to exploit researching. I mean if you can reverse one program probably you will be able to find a vulnerability, ...

Can Penetration Testing be considered as a part of an exhaustive Vulnerability Management program? P.S: I realise the difference between penetration testing and vulnerability assessment. But I want to ...

Specifically part of my system stores encrypted information in a database. I wrote the code that actually does the encrypting/decrypting using an existing cipher. How should I go about making sure ...

First: This is not one of those "How do I start hacking?" questions, but more of a "How do I begin testing a specific device?". It is a part of my Bachelor Thesis to perform a Vulnerability analysis/...

What is a fair fee to pay for a Penetration tester in USA to test a website running on PHP, linux, MySql and make recommendations for fixes? The site has thousands of pages and is running a YouTube ...