• A penetration test, colloquially known as a pentest, is an authorized simulated cyberattack on a computer system, performed to evaluate the security of...
    29 KB (3,516 words) - 21:18, 27 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Cone penetration test
    The cone penetration or cone penetrometer test (CPT) is a method used to determine the geotechnical engineering properties of soils and delineating soil...
    9 KB (1,102 words) - 03:17, 16 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for Standard penetration test
    The standard penetration test (SPT) is an in-situ dynamic penetration test designed to provide information on the geotechnical engineering properties...
    10 KB (1,302 words) - 00:21, 30 November 2024
  • White-box testing (also known as clear box testing, glass box testing, transparent box testing, and structural testing) is a method of software testing that...
    12 KB (1,573 words) - 10:37, 22 March 2025
  • hamster zona-free ovum test (HZFO test), or hamster egg-penetration test, or sometimes just hamster test, is an in-vitro test used to study physiological...
    7 KB (774 words) - 17:36, 18 September 2023
  • system and acceptance. Black-box testing is also used as a method in penetration testing, where an ethical hacker simulates an external hacking or cyber warfare...
    7 KB (821 words) - 20:43, 16 June 2025
  • Thumbnail for Rockwell hardness test
    Rockwell hardness test is a hardness test based on indentation hardness of a material. The Rockwell test measures the depth of penetration of an indenter...
    16 KB (1,654 words) - 10:27, 2 June 2025
  • California bearing ratio (category Tests in geotechnical laboratories)
    using a standardized penetration test first developed by the California Division of Highways for highway engineering. Empirical tests measure the strength...
    5 KB (656 words) - 00:54, 5 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kali Linux
    digital forensics and penetration testing. It is maintained and funded by Offensive Security. The software is based on the DebianTesting branch: most packages...
    27 KB (2,227 words) - 16:12, 28 June 2025
  • Ethical hacking is a term meant to imply a broader category than just penetration testing. Under the owner's consent, white-hat hackers aim to identify any...
    18 KB (1,870 words) - 03:36, 6 June 2025
  • Thumbnail for Soil liquefaction
    (Fear) (1998). "Evaluating cyclic liquefaction potential using the cone penetration test". Canadian Geotechnical Journal. 35 (3): 442–59. Bibcode:1998CaGJ....
    31 KB (3,666 words) - 16:31, 24 May 2025
  • computational cost and effort. Vulnerability assessment and penetration testing are two different testing methods. They are differentiated on the basis of certain...
    5 KB (463 words) - 22:36, 18 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Geotechnical engineering
    usually involves in-situ testing (for example, the standard penetration test and cone penetration test). The digging of test pits and trenching (particularly...
    25 KB (2,761 words) - 15:08, 27 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for Thixotropy
    Field (in situ) Core drill Cone penetration test Geo-electrical sounding Permeability test Load test Static Dynamic Statnamic Pore pressure measurement...
    12 KB (1,457 words) - 14:49, 23 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Nuclear bunker buster
    substantial improvement in penetration ability. Rocket sled testing at Eglin Air Force Base has demonstrated penetrations of 100 to 150 feet (30 to 46 m)...
    27 KB (3,148 words) - 23:29, 24 June 2025
  • the systems under test but not the depth of exposure that a specific vulnerability could lead to. Penetration Test - Penetration test simulates an attack...
    8 KB (1,008 words) - 14:11, 21 November 2024
  • security for non-malicious reasons, either to test their own security system, perform penetration tests or vulnerability assessments for a client, or...
    55 KB (5,962 words) - 03:26, 11 June 2025
  • Offensive Security (category Software testing)
    American international company working in information security, penetration testing and digital forensics. Beginning around 2007, the company created...
    23 KB (1,565 words) - 06:09, 23 April 2025
  • Vulnerability (computer security) (category Software testing)
    the software. A penetration test attempts to enter the system via an exploit to see if the system is insecure. If a penetration test fails, it does not...
    27 KB (3,333 words) - 03:19, 9 June 2025
  • worked penetration values, measured using the test defined by standard ASTM D217 “cone penetration of lubricating grease”. This involves two test apparatus...
    5 KB (499 words) - 16:59, 14 August 2024
  • Akō Line. N, in geotechnical engineering, the result of a standard penetration test N, in electrical systems, the connection to neutral N, an ITU prefix...
    6 KB (882 words) - 10:09, 5 June 2025
  • Thumbnail for Borehole
    monitoring wells or piezometers. Samples collected from boreholes are often tested in a laboratory to determine their physical properties, or to assess levels...
    10 KB (1,146 words) - 02:07, 22 June 2025
  • stability, and a narrow stem with graduations for measuring. The liquid to test is poured into a tall container, often a graduated cylinder, and the hydrometer...
    20 KB (2,324 words) - 10:04, 18 May 2025
  • easily identified using X-ray diffraction rather than chemical or physical tests. Varve (or varved clay) is clay with visible annual layers that are formed...
    30 KB (3,423 words) - 10:29, 26 June 2025
  • Thumbnail for Earthquake
    induced by human activities, such as mining, fracking, and nuclear weapons testing. The initial point of rupture is called the hypocenter or focus, while...
    79 KB (8,579 words) - 10:17, 27 May 2025
  • Red team (redirect from Red team testing)
    organization is aware of the penetration test and is ready to mount a defense. A red team goes a step further, and adds physical penetration, social engineering...
    45 KB (5,495 words) - 07:43, 27 June 2025
  • Thumbnail for BackBox
    BackBox is a penetration test and security assessment oriented Ubuntu-based Linux distribution providing a network and informatic systems analysis toolkit...
    10 KB (611 words) - 14:37, 22 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for Trench
    Field (in situ) Core drill Cone penetration test Geo-electrical sounding Permeability test Load test Static Dynamic Statnamic Pore pressure measurement...
    12 KB (1,435 words) - 17:21, 20 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Brinell hardness test
    hardness test (pronounced /brəˈnɛl/) measures the indentation hardness of materials. It determines hardness through the scale of penetration of an indenter...
    9 KB (963 words) - 13:02, 22 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Geotechnical investigation
    testing. The soil sampled this way is considered disturbed. Split-spoon / SPT Sampler. Utilized in the 'Standard Test Method for Standard Penetration...
    22 KB (3,037 words) - 16:26, 1 April 2025