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Hey friends, guess what? Yes, yes.. you read that right... It's Party time for all of us, as The Hacker News (THN) is celebrating its 5th Anniversary Today. And what an epic 5 years it has been! We began our journey on this same day back on November 1, 2010, as a dedicated news platform for Hackers, Security researchers, technologists and nerds. And just because of your support ' The Hacker News ' has become one of the World's popular Hacking and Technology News Platform that went from ~100,000 Readers to more than 4 Million unique monthly readers. So now it's time to Celebrate… and most importantly, Congratulate you all for the success of THN. Thank you all for your enthusiasm, contribution, support, sharing, love, time and efforts as well. We wouldn't be here, five years on and still going strong, if you didn't support us too. Future Plans at The Hacker News We don't cover everything, never did, never could, we just publicized the th

Dear THN Readers, ' The Hacker News ' is celebrating its 4th Anniversary today and we would like to thank every single Hacker, Researcher, Journalist, Enthusiast who has contributed to our phenomenal growth. When we began our journey 4 years back as a Small Local Community of few Hackers and Security Researchers, we had a dream of providing the Hacking Community with World's not first but best Hacking and IT Security News Platform. We wanted to gift hacking community members and security researchers their own trusted and an unique News platform, which is run by Hackers and dedicated to Hackers, a platform which is free from Censorship, Conventions, Governments and Borders. Now, we have been Internationally recognized as a leading news source dedicated to promoting awareness for cyber security experts and hackers. We are happy to announce that this project is now Supported and endorsed by thousands of Security Experts, administrators and members of vario

As a relatively new security category, many security operators and executives I've met have asked us "What are these Automated Security Validation (ASV) tools?" We've covered that pretty extensively in the past, so today, instead of covering the " What is ASV?" I wanted to address the " Why ASV?" question. In this article, we'll cover some common use cases and misconceptions of how people misuse and misunderstand ASV tools daily (because that's a lot more fun). To kick things off, there's no place to start like the beginning. Automated security validation tools are designed to provide continuous, real-time assessment of an organization's cybersecurity defenses. These tools are continuous and use exploitation to validate defenses like EDR, NDR, and WAFs. They're more in-depth than vulnerability scanners because they use tactics and techniques that you'll see in manual penetration tests. Vulnerability scanners won't relay hashes or combine vulnerabilities to further attacks, whic

One of the most awaited occasions in a year is your birthday, same way we are today celebrating ' The Hacker News ' 2nd Birthday week from on 28th October-3rd November 2012. Originally founded on 1st November 2010 by Mohit Kumar , ' The Hacker News ' was the very First dedicated Hacking and Security News website available on Internet, Now been internationally recognized as a leading news source dedicated to promoting awareness for security experts and hackers. We are happy to announce that this project is now Supported and endorsed by thousands of Security Experts, administrators and members of various underground hacking groups and communities worldwide.  With the need for information security solutions becoming more critical, In these two years we served updates to over 30 Million Readers through various projects including Daily happenings of Hacking & Security community via The Hacker News , A most comprehensive and informative collection of security, hacking, a