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Based on security assessment results, penetration testers often recommend hiding an enterprise network’s ports behind a whitelist. However, corporate IT teams don’t always understand the need for such a countermeasure. Even some admins and DevOps specialists with tons of experience wonder why this is necessary. Let’s take a dive into the risks of keeping ports […]
In some phases of information gathering. Pentester do require to scan some of the IP addresses that are most commonly used. As per ethical hacking researcher if International Institute of Cyber Security, scanning is the most important phase of penetration testing. The most common addresses can be of routers or search engines. These common scan […]
Mobile applications that open ports on Android smartphones are opening those phones to remote hacking, claims a team of researchers from the University of Michigan. Open ports are a well-known threat vector on servers, where administrators deploy security software with the primary purpose of shutting down or alerting the owner every time an unauthorized port […]