Charl Van Der Walt
ITWeb Security Summit 2009 – CFP Reminder
I wanted to remind folk that the CFP for the ITWeb Security Summit closes on 26 Jan 2009. You can check it out at http://www.itweb.co.za/events/securitysummit/2009/. Local (ZA) should please make themselves heard, but the organizers are also sponsoring travel for international speakers so if you ever wanted to visit the gool ol’ RS of A (that’s in Africa) then here’s your chance….
ITWeb Security Summit 2009 – CFP Now Open
A couple of months back SensePost were asked by a prominent South African media company to assist in the selection of content and speakers for an upcoming information security conference called ‘the ITWeb Security Summit‘.
The show runs 26-28 May 2009. The speaker lineup is mostly local (including yours truly) but past speakers have been pretty high-profile – including Dave Litchfield, Johnny Long, Kevin Mitnick, Johnny Cache, Howard Schulz and others.
HBN Bootcamp – Christmas Edition
As a Christmas special we have scheduled an additional training course, Hacking By Numbers – Extended Edition (Bootcamp) in Pretoria, South Africa on November 24-28th. The course runs for a full 5 days. This course will be offered at a never-to-be-repeated discount price of ZAR 10,999-00 (15% discount on the usual training price). Each trainee will be given a t-shirt and a Christmas hat!
For more on our training please visit http://www.sensepost.com/training.html.
HBN Extended Edition 6-10 October
We have scheduled our first training course for our new year, Hacking
By Numbers – “Extended” Edition – for October 6-10th . The course runs
for a full 5 days in Pretoria, South Africa.
The HBN ‘Extended Edition’ is simply an intensive extended version of
the regular Bootcamp course. Whilst the content and structure are
essentially the same as Bootcamp, the Extended Edition offers students
a deeper understanding of the concepts being presented and affords
them more time to practice the techniques being taught. Extended
Edition is currently only offered in Switzerland and South Africa
only, or can be arranged on request.
Should I stay or should I Gobi? Your support needed!
Hello All,
Some of you might remember that I climbed Mount Kilimanjaro two years ago. What you might not know is the REASON I did this (apart from the jol) was to o raise funds for CNCF, a Foundation that is a true oasis and a refuge to the street children of Vietnam and Mongolia.
CNCF – The Christina Noble Children’s Foundation is an International Partnership of people dedicated to serving children in need of emergency and long-term medical care, nutritional rehabilitation, educational opportunities, vocational training, job placement and the protection of children at risk of economic and sexual exploitation.
HBN Bootcamp @ Black Hat
Black Hat DC this year is supposed to be “a different kind of Black Hat”. There are four tracks over the two days with a special emphasis on wireless and speakers include Chris Wysopal, FX from Phenoelit, Job de Haas, and Adam Laurie. The smaller shows are always good fun and good value for money and DC this year promises to have an excellent line-up of speakers.
As usual training courses are offered on the two days before the briefings begin. Its been a while since we trained at DC but this year we’re back with a Bootcamp course. The course is filing up nicely, so we’re totally stoked. Like the show, the courses tend to be smaller and more personal so if you’ve never attended a Hacking By Numbers
‘Bootcamp’ course before then this is a great opportunity. Bootcamp Edition teaches a method-based approach to hacking into networks and systems over the Internet. The method taught consists of seven distinct phases that each have their own objectives, techniques and tools. Students are provided with fully-configured laptop computers that are used stage-for-stage to complete fifteen different technical exercises. You can learn more or enroll here… otherwise contact us via training@sensepost.com if you’d like some more information.
On working when everyone else is asleep…
This quote reminded of something H always says:
“When opportunity comes… its too late to prepare”
– John Wooden – Hall of Fame Basketball coach
Feedback on our courses in Switzerland
We just finished presenting an HBN Bootcamp and an HBN Combat Edition in Lausanne, Switzerland. A lot of people don’t know that we do this format – small courses on location worldwide. Its a different vibe to the big courses we do at Black Hat and the like, but it has some real advantages. Here’s the feedback we received – I especially like the nice things they say about me…
Thunks from hacking games
In Vegas I bought Herman “Exploiting Online Games” by Greg Hoglund and Gary McGraw. Being the saint that I am, I looked at the book thoroughly on the plane on the way home. Fortunately I was able to verify that most of the pages were there and intact and that were no blatant spelling or grammatical errors – it wouldn’t do to give Herman a broken book.
Whilst I was checking the Herman’s gift *anyway* I figured it wouldn’t hurt to also read and absorb some of the content – just to make sure I wasn’t giving him nonsense (with all due respect to Greg and Gary). In particular what interested me was whether their thinking on online games held any lessons for the work we more traditionally do on online financial and e-commerce systems. I thought the book was fascinating, particularly in this context. What follows is a mind dump of some of the thoughts I had as I was reading.
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