Compliance beasts and how to tame them
⬇️ Episode 4: The Scope Serpent 🐍

The Scope Serpent haunts your workflow because:
🐍 It hides - Sprawling attack surfaces mask internal exposures
📈 It grows - your environment is too dynamic for manual tracking.
🙈 It blinds - untested assets lead to routine audit rejections.

Tame it with audit-ready discovery:
🌐 Map the perimeter - identify external and internal exposures automatically.
🔍 Validate the risk - get proof of exploitability, not just a list of assets.
🏗️ Centralize - group assets by business unit to keep evidence structured and separated.

Stop guessing your scope. Start proving your compliance.

Download the free white paper on Pentest-Tools.com (no personal data required). Link in the comments.

#compliance #offensivesecurity #infosec

Read more details and download the white paper for free here: https://pentest-tools.com/usage/compliance

🏋️ 𝗡𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗵𝗦𝗲𝗰 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀/𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 (𝟰/𝟭𝟮): "Offensive Active Directory Operations Certification (OADOC)" 𝗽𝗮𝗿/𝗯𝘆 Evan Hosinski (White Knight Labs)

📅 Dates: May 11, 12 and 13, 2026 (3 days)
📊 Difficulty: Medium
🖥️ Mode: Hybrid (on-site & remote)

Description: "𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘈𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘖𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘊𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 (𝘖𝘈𝘋𝘖𝘊) 𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘱𝘴 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘩𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦, 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴-𝘰𝘯 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘰 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘪𝘵 𝘮𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘈𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘪𝘨𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘴 𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘩 𝘞𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘓𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘹 𝘦𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴. 𝘋𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘺’𝘴 𝘮𝘪𝘹𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘷𝘰𝘭𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘦 𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘴𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘴, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘧𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘭𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘞𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘴 𝘚𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘦𝘳 2016 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘚𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘦𝘳 2025, 𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘪𝘲𝘶𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘷𝘢𝘯𝘵, 𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘢𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭-𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴. 𝘠𝘰𝘶’𝘭𝘭 𝘥𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘱 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘹𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘵𝘦 𝘮𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪-𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮 𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘴, 𝘭𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘤𝘶𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨-𝘦𝘥𝘨𝘦 𝘈𝘋 𝘢𝘣𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘦𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘻𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯, 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘦𝘥, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘩𝘺 𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘦𝘯𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯."

About the trainer:
Evan Hosinski is an Offensive Security Professional and senior penetration tester who builds, breaks, and improves systems at scale. His work combines hands-on engineering with real-world attacker tradecraft, driving him to design tools and methodologies that hold up in live environments.

🔗 Training details: https://nsec.io/training/2026-offensive-active-directory-operations-certification-oadoc/

#NorthSec #cybersecurity #infosec #redteam #offensivesecurity

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🚨 Active exploitation confirmed: CVE-2026-24061.

This isn't just theoretical, it's a massive exposure. With nearly 800,000 Telnet instances exposed globally across legacy IoT and outdated servers, the risk of a root-level compromise is real and immediate.

We have updated Pentest-Tools.com to help you validate your exposure:

📡 Network Scanner - detects exposed Telnet services across your internal and external perimeters, identifying potentially vulnerable GNU Inetutils daemons.

🎯 Sniper Auto-Exploiter - safely executes a proof-of-concept to confirm if the authentication bypass is actually exploitable on your systems, providing the evidence needed to prioritize an immediate fix.

⚠️ Crucial detail: This critical vulnerability exists because telnetd fails to sanitize the USER environment variable. An attacker can simply supply -f root to bypass the login prompt entirely and gain instant, unauthenticated root shell access.

Attacks are happening in real-time. Validate your risk before it becomes a root-level compromise.

#offensivesecurity #ethicalhacking #infosec #cybersecurity

Check out more details about this critical vulnerability: https://pentest-tools.com/vulnerabilities-exploits/telnet-inetutils-authentication-bypass_28759

Detect with Network Scanner: https://pentest-tools.com/network-vulnerability-scanning/network-security-scanner-online

Validate with Sniper Auto-Exploiter: https://pentest-tools.com/exploit-helpers/sniper

January was all about detection depth and clarity.

Here we go with the most important updates in Pentest-Tools.com:

🕷️ Deeper logic - the Website Scanner now hunts down CL.0 request smuggling and serialized objects inside JSON payloads.

🎯 Validate your exposure - you know the risks of React2Shell and FortiWeb. Now use Sniper: Auto-Exploiter to prove your patches actually hold up against real exploits.

⚓ Port-aware findings - we now group findings by port. Same vulnerability, different port? That is now a separate entry for cleaner reporting.

See the full breakdown on January updates here: https://pentest-tools.com/change-log

Until next time: Stay sharp. Stay human.

#Infosec #EthicalHacking #OffensiveSecurity

Compliance beasts and how to tame them
⬇️ Episode 3: The Snapshot Sphinx

The Snapshot Sphinx haunts your workflow because:

🗿 It demands the "Eternal now" - auditors want a pulse, not a 6-month-old screengrab.
📉 It thrives on decay - static reports rot the moment a new CVE drops.
🔄 It forces the "Periodic panic" - you end up scanning everything 48 hours before the auditor arrives.

Wanna tame this "creature"? Switch to continuous evidence:

📅 Schedule the scrutiny - automate scans weekly or monthly to keep your data fresh.
🔍 Spot the delta - use vulnerability diffing to show exactly what you fixed since the last run.
📈 Prove the trend - transform one-off reports into a defensible history of proactive risk reduction.

Show your auditors a heartbeat, not a snapshot.

#compliance #offensivesecurity #infosec

Download our compliance white paper for free below. And yes, of course, no personal data required. https://pentest-tools.com/usage/compliance

Compliance beasts and how to tame them ⬇️

Episode 2: The Copy-Paste Kraken

🐙 Has too many tentacles - you manually move findings from 200-page PDFs into Jira, Vanta, or Nucleus.
🐽 Feeds on status drift - your scanner says "fixed," but your compliance platform still says "open."
⏳ Hoards your time - every hour spent reformatting is an hour lost on actual security work.

Wanna tame it? Switch to *automated evidence flows*:

🔁 Sync findings directly: push validated data into your existing tech stack.
☠️ Get rid of the manual middleman: eliminate the report-formatting grind with automated evidence sync.
🎯 Maintain one source of truth: keep remediation progress in sync without manual updates.

See how we do it in our compliance white paper! Get it for free here - no personal data required (yes, really!). https://pentest-tools.com/usage/compliance

#compliance #offensivesecurity #infosec

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Here are the top 10 ways you can stop findings from slipping through the cracks with Pentest-Tools.com :

1️⃣ Keep every finding in one place (from automated scans + manual tests)
2️⃣ Mark findings as "Open", "Fixed", "Accepted", or "False positive" to keep them accurate
3️⃣ Get automatic proof for every finding (and add more manually if you need it)
4️⃣ Track fixes with scan diffs and validate remediation
5️⃣ Use workspaces to keep findings grouped automatically, then report fast and avoid data spills
6️⃣ Filter out informational findings and focus on high-risk issues to make your time count
7️⃣ Push findings to Jira, Nucleus, or your CI/CD workflow without copy-paste pain
8️⃣ Get technical details, remediation steps, evidence, and attack replay in every finding
9️⃣ Import Burp results and add manual findings to keep reports comprehensive
🔟 Re-test fixes and catch regression before attackers do

#offensivesecurity #cybersecurity #infosec #pentesting

Track every finding from discovery to fix:

https://pentest-tools.com/features/findings-management

#CallForSponsors
We are currently open for sponsors and partners for Adversary Village at RSAC 2026, San Francisco.

This is an opportunity to collaborate with one of the leading communities focused on #AdversarySimulation and #OffensiveSecurity, and to engage directly with practitioners, researchers, and industry leaders shaping modern security operations.
If you are interested in partnering with us for RSAC 2026, feel free to reach out: https://adversaryvillage.org/sponsors/

#AdversaryVillage #RSAConference #PurpleTeam

Ever lose a scan because your tool feels heavier than the actual pentest? 🫠

That friction adds up fast when you juggle multiple clients or projects.

That’s why we built Workspaces in Pentest-Tools.com 🔧

🗂️ Assets, scans, findings, reports — all in one place
👥 Clear ownership. No stepping on each other’s toes
🧠 You always know who tested what, and why

Less tab chaos.
Less guesswork.
More signal.

Details here:
https://pentest-tools.com/features/workspaces

#pentesting #infosec #offensivesecurity #vulnerabilitymanagement

Scanners say “it depends.”
Stakeholders say “show me.”

That awkward gap in the middle?
That’s where tickets stall and risk hangs around.

Sniper: Auto-Exploiter in Pentest-Tools.com skips the guessing and goes straight to proof.

What it helps with:

- Real exploit validation (no version bingo)

- Safe attack paths that confirm impact

- Clear evidence you can reuse in reports

- Less noise, fewer debates, faster fixes

No drama. Just answers.

Details here:
https://pentest-tools.com/exploit-helpers/sniper

#pentesting #infosec #offensivesecurity #cybersecurity

Taming the "Maybe" Monster in #Compliance 👾

Legacy scanners love "potential" flags, but auditors demand proof. If you're tired of manual reformatting and "maybe" findings:

✅ Capture artifacts (screenshots/traces) on the fly.
✅ Validate exploitability to turn noise into risk.
✅ Provide the "smoking gun" for easier prioritization.

We’ve published a white paper on moving to evidence-based compliance.

No personal data, no email, and no tracking required. Just the info.

📖 Read it and download it for free here: https://pentest-tools.com/usage/compliance

#Infosec #CyberSecurity #OffensiveSecurity #Compliance #Privacy

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Most auditors hate raw scanner noise as much as you hate jumping through hoops trying to explain it. Why? Because a scan ≠ a pass. ⬇️

If you spend more time reformatting 200-page PDFs than reducing risk, you’re stuck in a loop that burns into your team’s energy.

Here are 3 ways we reduce compliance noise:

✅ Capture irrefutable proof 👉 get screenshots, request/response traces, and more to prove a vulnerability exists and matters.

✅ Show continuous progress 👉 replace static snapshots with scheduled scans and vulnerability diffing to demonstrate effective remediation over time.

✅ Sync findings directly 👉 push validated data straight into Jira, Vanta, or Nucleus (or others) to eliminate manual reformatting and status drift.

Read the full white paper here: https://pentest-tools.com/usage/Compliance-white-paper-2025.pdf

For more context and examples: https://pentest-tools.com/usage/compliance

#compliance #offensivesecurity #infosec #pentesttools

The cybersecurity certification landscape is a puzzle for professionals and employers alike. In this article - the first of a series - we have tried to rationalize the best choices out there for different types of professionals and career paths.

#cybersecurity #certifications #career #ISC #CompTIA #ISACA #ECCouncil #SANS #GIAC #OffensiveSecurity

https://negativepid.blog/the-cybersecurity-certification-landscape/
https://negativepid.blog/the-cybersecurity-certification-landscape/

🎁 Holiday Giveaway🎁

Sponsored by Suzu Labs, the Phillip Wylie Show is giving away a HAK5 WiFi Pineapple Pager — a powerful tool for wireless security assessments and red team operations.

👉 Enter here: https://suzulabs.com/giveaway

Huge thanks to Suzu Labs for supporting the cybersecurity community.

#Cybersecurity #OffensiveSecurity #PenTesting #WirelessSecurity #Giveaway

End of year rush? 📉

We have some good news to help you close out the budget season: Pentest-Tools.com is available in the AWS Marketplace.

This means you can now get our new & improved plans using your existing AWS cloud budget—keeping procurement simple and approvals fast.

Whether you need to lock in your 2026 tooling or just want to consolidate billing, you can now access our full suite directly through your AWS account.

Check out the listing here: https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-hbngy6inrni5s

#vulnerabilitymanagement #offensivesecurity #AWSMarketplace #infosec

Can machine learning make offensive security smarter or is it just security theater?

We asked seasoned pentesters, red teamers, and builders of offensive tools to share where ML helps—and where it falls flat.

The takeaway? Machine learning isn't magic, but when used wisely, it can sharpen your offensive edge.

Read the full expert roundup: https://pentest-tools.com/blog/what-the-experts-say-machine-learning-in-offensive-security

#offensivesecurity #securitycompliance #machinelearning

Let’s be honest: in #offensivesecurity, the calendar plan never survives first contact with the terminal.

But if you audit your own year, where did you invest the majority of your energy?

We’re curious about the split between the "necessary grind" and the work that actually brings you satisfaction.

Vote below 👇