Charl Van Der Walt
Mobile Security – Observations from the developing world
By the year 2015 sub-Saharan Africa will have more people with mobile network access than with access to electricity at home.
This remarkable fact from a 2011 MobileMonday report came to mind again as I read an article just yesterday about the introduction of Mobile Money in the UK: By the start of next year, every bank customer in the country may have the ability to transfer cash between bank accounts, using an app on their mobile phone.
Press Release – London Hacking & Security Courses
School’s never out for the Pro!
We’re proud to announce that we are now offering our highly successful penetration testing training courses to the UK market from 2012.
SensePost has been providing penetration testing training courses to corporates and governments across the globe, and at prestige security events such as Black Hat and OWASP for over a decade. Initially, three courses in London for 2012 have been organised:
HBN Extended Edition (4 days) – 13-17, February 2012 HBN W^3 Edition (3 days) – 14-16 March 2012 HBN Unplugged (2 days) – 18-19 April 2012 The first course, HBN Extended Edition is set at an introductory level for technical people without experience in the world of hacking or penetration testing. It presents attendees with the background information, technical skill and basic concepts that are required to get started in this field.
Press Release – Jane Frankland joins SensePost
The SensePost marketing division, a highly skilled team of ruthless spin-doctors, is proud to announce that they have written … a press release. Indeed, this team of fawners, flunkeys, lackeys and puffers has been slaving since early 2009 to come up with the pristine example of literary art you will read below. If you’re intimidated by what I’ve just said, harbour a fanatical dislike for marketing folks or simply don’t read so good, then here’s the short version:
Black Hat Abu Dhabi && Cadet Online Edition
Black Hat will host its second event in the Middle East in Abu Dhabi with a full contingent of selected Training and three tracks of Briefings over four days from December 12 to 15 December 2011.
We’re pleased to announce that SensePost will be back again this year with our exciting new Wifi hacking course – Hacking By Numbers, Unplugged Edition, launched for the 1st time in Las Vegas this year. This course is fresh and exciting and was an amazing success at Black Hat earlier this year. You can register directly on the Black Hat site, or contact us if you want more information.
SensePost @ 44Con – Join us!
Until recently, there was a distinct lack of decent, high-quality technical security conferences held in the United Kingdom. Home to the Global Financial Centre, London, there isn’t a shortage of industries who require secure applications and rely on secure infrastructure and applications to operate.
With this in mind, 44Con is the first combined information security conference and training event held in Central London. The con will provide business and technical tracks, aimed at government, public sector, financial, security professionals and Chief Security Officers.
SensePost Black Hat Course Summary & chosing the right courses
As we draw nearer to Black Hat Vegas we get a lot of requests from people who need help choosing between one of our courses or the other. In order to provide people with a single, consolidated summary of all the courses we’ll be offering this year I’ve put together a rough summary doc that outlines all the courses and attempts to illustrate how they fit together. Get it here:
From the International Conference on Cyber Conflict
The text that follows is a short statement I prepared for the press ahead of my presentation at the ‘The International Conference on Cyber Conflict’ (http://www.ccdcoe.org/ICCC/) in Tallinn, Estonia. It felt like I had very mixed response, so I’d be interested to hear what others think…
My background and context Any opinion can only be understood if you also understand its context. Therefore, in order to understand the thinking that follows, you also have to understand my perspective. Three aspects of my context effect my thinking here:
Training – lots of stuff(c)
Hey. Charl here. Lots of stuff is happening on the training front right now (ed: right now!), and I wanted to make sure everyone is aware of it.
1. New schedule published
At the start of the year we always try publish a schedule of when and where our various training courses are happening. Of course it changes a bit as the year progresses, but its a pretty good overview of where you need to be if you want to participate in one of the courses. The current 2011 schedule can be found here.
Season’s Greetings
To all our customers, staff (past and present), business partners, friends and associates I’d like to wish a joyous and peaceful festive season. What started out as a depression is slowly becoming a success and I thank you for all your support during this past year. I look forward to seeing you all again soon and sharing with you an exciting and prosperous 2011!
Black Hat Abu Dhabi – Full … NOT!
The bad news is that our course at Black Hat Abu Dhabi is completely full. The good news is … they’ve given us a bigger room! So if you’ve been told the course is full, or if you haven’t registered yet, please do it quickly before it fills up again.
Problems? Please contact us or mail training[at]sensepost[dot]com.