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pentesting

A penetration test, or pen test, is an attempt to evaluate the security of an IT infrastructure by safely trying to exploit vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities may exist in operating systems, service and application flaws, improper configurations, or risky end-user behavior.
I'm pentesting Microsoft's website to see if they're vulnerable for XSS.
by SevnDev May 25, 2016
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