Last month we began exploring the dangerous and fun world of scanning, focusing on the powerful port scanner Nmap. Nmap helps system administrators and security auditors (and yes, prospective crackers ...

Networks are being compromised and sensitive data exposed almost daily. Thanks to the recent exploits of groups like Anonymous and LulzSec, it is glaringly apparent that hacking into the organizations ...

Cybersecurity provider Tenable has released patches for three vulnerabilities in Nessus, its vulnerability scanner. The high-severity vulnerabilities can allow privilege escalation, code execution and ...